Teen Foster-Care or placements?

Question

I need to do a presentation on Adolescent Placements, and the professor did not give too much detail. I have done some research but still need some help because for some reason I am not finding much... it is more like individual accounts/stories of one kid or like a newspaper article, which isn't very helpful. If anyone could help out with such things like: the effects of Placements and FosterCare on adolescence, what Types of placements there are, long-term outcomes of placements, etc.

Your help would be greatly appreciated... :o/

Answer 1

The best way I can answer your question is to suggest you visit this site as often as possible and read the questions and answers.  You will discover the complexity of adoptions and how they are viewed from numerous different view points.  The long-term outcomes of placements is the single most controversial subject on this site.  Anyone who tells you the outcomes are monitored and gives you stats to back it up have never asked how the adoptees know if they are better off or not.  How can they know?  Good luck.

Answer 2

Melissa, you may find a lot of useful information on http://fostercarevictoria.wordpress.com - including information regarding the likelihood of these young people to be involved in the juvenile justice system, impacts on brain development, and information on attachment theory.

Answer 3

Google-on the top where it has options such as images, maps etc, you will find scholar (you  may need to click the more arrow to find it) click that. This provides you with more acurate and research based information. Type in Foster care and you will find lots of articles. The library should also have info on foster care.

Answer 4

There is a lot of information online.  adoptuskids.org is a site that gives some profiles of kids, and gives statistics of the kids that age out of the system and never get placed.

There are a lot of questions on this forum that have people who were given up for adoption at various stages who have really strong beliefs about adoption.  Some hate it, some have even adopted themselves.  Read through some of the older questions pertinent to adoption, and you can figure how many feel.  It's amazing on some who were placed who also have ended up placing their biological kids for adoption, whether by choice or force.

Answer 5

im an ex foster care kid and i must say a lot of adolesence who are in care are messed up as it is from moving place to place that placement is very difficult.

I was in a long term placement (so i was in care until i was of age 18 with the same foster parents), then theres respite where the parents or foster parents need a break so they pass the kid on to someone else for a while...

maybe you should talk to a social worker and find out all this stuff.