Foster Care System Analysis

More youth are being separated from their families and are being sent to foster homes. As more youth enter the foster care system they are also staying longer periods of time. Therefore, something is not working as efficiently as it should be in the foster care system. Children and youth are being sent to foster homes because the types of relationships that they encounter at home with their families are no longer healthy relationships. There are multiple factors that may increase the risk for child maltreatment. Asawa, Hansen and Flood (2008) identify some risk factors to be “parent factors, child factors in the immediate interaction context and those existing in the broader environmental context”(76). When child maltreatment begins to emerge …show more content…
Therefore some care providers are responsible for keeping close contact with the youth till the age of 21. It’s been advised that a plan should be set for the youth starting at the age of 16 so that the appropriate resources are provided for youth if they choose to leave at an earlier age. This act had been enforced by The Children and Young Act of 2008 this act will allow care giver to keep closer communication with the youth until the age of 25 to confirm that they are living stable, independently and healthy lives (Hiles et al. …show more content…
By obtaining data through a longitudinal design it allows data to be studied throughout a longer period of time in order to get more accurate results. Through the information obtained it was concluded that Mexican-origin children spend more month in foster care than non-immigrant children. Among this population the proportion of Mexican-origin who were able to return to their families was higher than that of non-immigrant children. However using qualitative data has its limitations, people are influenced on how to answer the questions based on the interviewer; this could perhaps get in the way of the results because people are answering how based on what would be acceptable to society (Stern, Bilgen and Dillman 2014). Since interviews can take a longer period of time a questionnaire could be appropriate. Depending on the research the researcher could decide whether they want to focus on closed or open questions. Focusing on a topic where more in-depth and rich information is needed it’s better to choose open questions for the participants (Balllinger and Davey

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