LastName 1
LastName 3
FirstName LastName
Instructor’s Name
Course Title
12 April 2022
Annotated Bibliography: Problems In The Foster Care System
Franz, Daschel J., et al. “A longitudinal examination of service utilization and trauma symptoms among young women with prior foster care and juvenile justice system involvement.” Child welfare. 97.5-6 (2019): 199. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167304/
Franz’s source is a primary source. It involved conducting scientific research where 166 participants, were placed in different treatment conditions and various aspects such as service utilization were observed and analyzed. The source is trying to predict young adult service utilization and trauma from childhood experiences such as foster homes or juvenile involvement. The results aim to see how these experiences will affect service utilization of the service at the adulthood stage. The problems that are evident from the sources show a correlation between traumatic foster home experiences and services utilization. Some of the results show that many youths from foster homes utilized mental health services. The source, therefore, shows that the foster care system is full of traumatizing experiences and is affecting many children. The issue of trauma addressed by the article is widespread the results show that over 75 percent are experiencing trauma after transitioning to adulthood. The source is of high quality because the research was conducted by four researchers and has also been reviewed. The four authors are Daschel J. Franz, Amanda M. Grif, Lisa Saldana, and Leslie D. Leve, all from Oregon University. The information is therefore credible and reliable. The source will be very useful in my research because it provides some aspects that can be measured to assess the impacts of trauma at foster care homes. It provides a real picture of the situation in the foster care system.
Fritz K. Gregory “How Foster Care System Fails Our Children” The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior letter (2008):8.
The source is a secondary source because it reports its findings based on other people’s work. The article is addressing the financial problems facing foster homes that have contributed to the languishing of children in such foster care systems. It provides evidence where foster parents in some states, receive fewer funds that cannot meet the basic needs of children they are taking care of, resulting in some children being neglected in foster homes. The state financial system, therefore, fails the foster care system by not providing enough funds. With foster care systems failing so languish the children in the care system because fewer parents will be interested in adopting them. The article estimates that children’s adoption to foster homes is in rapid decline.
Another critical factor that fails the US foster care system highlighted by the article is the unwillingness of the stakeholders to terminate parental rights even with repeated episodes of neglect. The article reports several cases where the law has failed to protect kids in the foster care system. This is because they are too slow to take action against biological or foster parents when they fail to perform their responsibilities. The information from this source is reliable and of high quality, since the author is a doctor who specialized in children’s mental health, he has therefore come across many cases of children from the foster care system. The source is useful for my research because it provides critical issues and data, on where the US foster care system has failed.
Gupta-Kagan, Josh. “America’s hidden foster care system.” Stan. L. Rev. 72 (2020): 841.
The source is secondary because it uses the work of other people to arrive at its results. The article is discussing the issue of child protection agencies that have failed to do the proper funding. Reforms in child financing and federal funding give incentives to the hidden foster homes without any regulation hence leaving children without proper care in their foster homes. Agencies have been given more power to an extent where they can intimidate the parents of the child. Such incidences according to the sources happen thousands of times a year. The article, therefore, calls for the state to give parents opportunity in the court, limit on time for child custody, provide counseling for the parents, and report any actions that lead to separation of a child and parent. The source is of high quality and credible because it was reviewed by Stanford university school of law. The author also is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina where he specializes in issues affecting children and families. The article, therefore, is very vital in my research because it brings in the legal perspective of problems affecting the foster care system. It brings in the cause of these problems also from the legal perspective. The source also is credible and reliable hence will be used in my research.
Simmons-Horton, Sherri Y. “A bad combination”: lived experiences of youth involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.” Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 38.6 (2021): 583-597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-020-00693-1
This is a primary source. The author is giving results based on the study that she conducted personally. The author conducted a research where participant youths were interviewed on certain issues. The data from the interview was then analyzed to get a conclusion, hence the source is classified as a primary source. The source describes the issues affecting dual-status youth, these are youths who have spent time in the juvenile justice system and foster care. It is trying to explain that such a system will have negative impacts on youths from foster care as they become adults. It is also addressing an issue of dual youth that has been neglected for a long time because the current literature does not address it. The sources show that the dual status youth are many and are undergoing trough many problems such as bad experiences that led to dual youth status, environmental and systemic traumatic experiences, and absence of normalcy. This source is useful because the information is of high quality, the author is conducting scientific research before analyzing and giving results. Sherri Simmons-Horton is an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, she studied sociology and has a Ph.D. in Juvenile Justice. This source will be vital for my research because it will give me the basis for my research about the adult life of dual youths.
Wildeman, Christopher, and Jane Waldfogel. “Somebody’s children or nobody’s children? How the sociological perspective could enliven research on foster care.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 599-618. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043358
The source is secondary because it uses other people’s work to conduct its research and make a conclusion. This source is discussing the sociological perspective of three problems children under foster care. These are the foster care history explaining how the children end up in the system, the tough life in foster care, and its implications. It gives the history of foster care, which came into effect in 1974, after the enactment of the Child Abuse Prevention Act. It also highlights major issues that make children opt for foster care. The main factors highlighted are abusive parents and negligence. Based on the risk the source highlights many problems that children in foster homes face. These problems include mental health, high rates of homelessness, criminal justice conduct, and sex work. The information in this source, therefore, is of high quality and reliable because it is built on scientific research that had been done by other scholars. The author also is a professional – Wildeman is a professor of sociology at Duke University hence the sources are reliable. The sources will be useful in my research because I will use them to get information on the social perception of problems affecting the foster care system.
Works Cited
Franz, Daschel J., et al. “A longitudinal examination of service utilization and trauma symptoms among young women with prior foster care and juvenile justice system involvement.” Child welfare. 97.5-6 (2019): 199. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167304/
Fritz K. Gregory “How Foster Care System Fails Our Children” The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior letter (2008):8.
Gupta-Kagan, Josh. “America’s hidden foster care system.” Stan. L. Rev. 72 (2020): 841.
Simmons-Horton, Sherri Y. “A bad combination”: lived experiences of youth involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.” Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 38.6 (2021): 583-597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-020-00693-1
Wildeman, Christopher, and Jane Waldfogel. “Somebody’s children or nobody’s children? How the sociological perspective could enliven research on foster care.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 599-618. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043358