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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 article was written by Cook, R.J. as a means of examining how people raised in the foster care system further live and interact in the world after their time in foster care. It 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. The importance of this reference is to give us a somewhat brief understanding of just how negatively the foster care system can be to an individual and although certain measures might be implemented the key problem of this system may never be truly solved. It’s important is to show us how negatively the foster care system can be to young growing adults post-discharge from the system.

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

Written by Doyle jr. this book is an exploratory work in that its looks at the negative impacts of the foster care system to a child as they mature to adulthood. This book mainly 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. This reference shows us just how adulthood, in the end, might be negatively affected due to the unavoidable circumstances found by being raised in the foster care system. Its importance is to show us just how fully grown adults might greatly be affected by the foster system in that their development and productivity might not be up to the same standard as an individual who was not raised in said system.

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 is a brief work between Lawrence C.R, Carlson E.A and Egeland B. as a means of exploring the psychological impact of the foster care system on a child and also its greater effects on a person’s development in the foreseeable future. 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. This reference gives us a brief work on just how a foster care system may be of immense impact on a person’s psychology which would, later on, have unavoidable consequences on a person’s development. Its importance is to give us the psychological impact of the foster care system and thus show us how negatively full-grown adults are affected by such a system.

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 good insight used by McDonald T.P to assess the long-term effects of the foster system by looking into past documentation of people placed in such systems and the overall concluding effect of people placed in such a system. 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. This reference although a continuation of major articles put together is presented as a brief understanding of just how adulthood is negatively affected by foster care especially when it comes to people trying to do things for themselves as full-grown adults. Its importance is to show us the unavoidable challenge of navigating everyday normal tasks as an individual raised in the foster care system and just how hard it is for said individuals to be as productive as their counterparts not raised in the same system.

Pecora, P. J., Kessler, R. C., O’Brien, K., White, C. R., Williams, J., Hiripi, E., … & Herrick, M.A. (2006). 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.

The authors of this book Pecora P., Kessler R., O’ Brien K., White C., William’s J., Hiripi E, and Herrick M., take a brief look at the foster care issue by exploring just how the system affects emerging adults raised in this system especially in terms of education and employment. It 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. This reference looks at the employment and productivity rates of individuals who were raised in the foster care system. Its importance in the essay is to show us just how the foster care system does not greatly help in creating productive individuals in society.

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.