Effects of foster care

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Cook, R. J. (1994). Are we helping foster care youth prepare for their future? Children and Youth Services Review, 16(3-4), 213-229.

This is an article that focuses on the results of interviews to describe the youth`s post-discharge outcomes and the effects of receiving independent living skills training. The study eventually concluded that although some young parents were highly educated the discharged foster care youths especially ones between the ages of 18-24 years were living below the poverty level than the general population of youths between the ages of 18-24. Although skills training was recommended to combat this issue they mostly were unavailable to such individuals.

Doyle Jr, J. J. (2007). Child protection and child outcomes: Measuring the effects of foster care. American Economic Review, 97(5), 1583-1610.

This book utilizes the placement of child protection investigators as a variable in identifying just how casual effects of foster care can have great long-term outcomes on children placed in such a system. Such negative effects may include juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancies, and unemployment. The concluding result was that children assigned to investigators with higher removal rates are more than likely to be placed in foster care. These children are found to have higher delinquency rates along with some evidence of higher teen pregnancies and lower means of earning a living.

Lawrence, C. R., Carlson, E. A., & Egeland, B. (2006). The impact of foster care on development. Development and psychopathology, 18(1), 57-76.

This book particularly investigates the effects of foster care on the development of child behavior and also the psychological function taking into account the adaptation period of the said child before placement and economic status just ahead of being placed in the program. The conclusive finding was that outcomes on a child vary with the type of care a child is given and also other factors associated with maltreatment history and social-economic status.

McDonald, T. P. (1996). Assessing the long-term effects of foster care: a research synthesis. Child Welfare League of America, Inc., c/o CSSC, PO Box 7816, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818-7816.

This book is a review of 29 studies between 1960 and 1992 to assess the impact of childhood out-of-home care on an adult’s self-sufficiency. Taking into account the complex history of the American foster care system this study tries to detail this system in an easily understood framework thus trying to make us understand just how important this system is. Its final findings indicate that those not receiving childhood out-of-home care do much better than adults placed in childhood out-of-home care.

Pecora, P. J., Kessler, R. C., O’Brien, K., White, C. R., Williams, J., Hiripi, E., … & Herrick, M. A. (2006). Educational and employment outcomes of adults formerly placed in foster care: Results from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. Children and youth services review, 28(12), 1459-1481.

This book is a case study of just how adults who were previously in the foster care system greatly functioned in life and the long-term effect of being in such a system. The study showed that although a higher number of individuals completed high school like the general population a large number of them still had to complete by the use of their GEDs. The concluding study was that the number of foster individuals who completed their studies became generally low over time since a large portion of said individuals could not afford to study further.

References

Cook, R. J. (1994). Are we helping foster care youth prepare for their future? Children and Youth Services Review, 16(3-4), 213-229.

Doyle Jr, J. J. (2007). Child protection and child outcomes: Measuring the effects of foster care. American Economic Review, 97(5), 1583-1610.

Lawrence, C. R., Carlson, E. A., & Egeland, B. (2006). The impact of foster care on development. Development and psychopathology, 18(1), 57-76.

McDonald, T. P. (1996). Assessing the long-term effects of foster care: a research synthesis. Child Welfare League of America, Inc., c/o CSSC, PO Box 7816, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818-7816.

Pecora, P. J., Kessler, R. C., O’Brien, K., White, C. R., Williams, J., Hiripi, E., … & Herrick, M. A. (2006). Educational and employment outcomes of adults formerly placed in foster care: Results from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. Children and youth services review, 28(12), 1459-1481.