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Section 70031
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Child Welfare: Working with Children and Their Families
Chapter 7
What is the definition of “Family”?
Does there need to be a biological connection for one to be considered “Family”?
“FAMILY”
= is a system of individuals who are interrelated and have significant relationships
Not all families are related biologically
Name some examples of ‘family’
3
Ecological Approach
Human Development Theory
Cognitive Development Theory
Social Learning Theory
Psychosocial Theory
Theories used when working with children
Theories determine the type of intervention the worker will use with the child and family
Work with children and families should be based on sound principles that have been well researched
Why is it important to use a theory in working with children?
Help for children began for a negative reasons
Early 1900’s
Foster care was introduced
1912 the U.S. Children’s Bureau
1921 the Child Welfare League of America
1940’s and 1950’s
Work was focused on keeping families together
Child welfare was further defined
Institutional care was replaced by an increase in foster care
Historically
Family preservation and home-based placement became the common interventions
Counseling with families and children expanded
In the twentieth century
Definition
= the activities, programs, interventions, and policies that are intended to improve the overall well-being of children
Describes the public and private systems that serve the needs of children
“Child Welfare”
Child Maltreatment
“The physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, or exploitation, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child by a person who is responsible for the child’s welfare, under circumstances which indicate that the child’s health or welfare is harmed or threatened thereby, as determined in accordance with [federal] regulations” – (Page 188-189)
The state system, department, or agency responsible for the investigation of allegations of abuse and neglect
The protection of children at risk of abuse or neglect
Service delivery
Placement of children who have been maltreated
Social workers are intake workers, caseworkers, supervisors, administrators and are involved in other services besides assessing maltreatment
Child Protective Services (CPS)
Foster care
The major social welfare program to care for children outside of their families
The ultimate goal is for the child to return to their home
Permanency planning
Following federal guidelines, the first goal is to place children back home
If back home is not a viable option, the second choice is adoption (legally moving a child to an adoptive family)
Family preservation services
Provides services to prevent children from separating from their family (if it is safe to keep them there)
Restore them back to their family if possible
Place them in adoptive home when reunification is not possible
Services provided by CPS
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College of Arts, Culture and Scientific Inquiry, University of West Georgia
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Adoption & foster care have fought a continuous battle with providing children with proper stable homes to live in. Not accounting for the external factors (such as irresponsible guardians) there, are many internal factors that contribute to the instability of the foster care system. Researching and examining the infrastructure of the foster care system led to several discoveries about the many flaws that exist within the system. The lack of resources, quality assurance (between guardian and child) & unorganized administration, has led to numerous counts of children being lost and/or destroyed by a system “intended” to aid them. Yet, at the same time the foster care system also fails in reforming the parents (or former guardians) of the children. The judicial system ensures that many parents receive a TPR (termination of parental rights) essentially severing the relationship between parent & child, while also contributing to the psychological trauma of foster care. Nonetheless the near future of foster care seems optimistic due to the various changes in factors of the system such as, transracial adoption & LGBTQ individuals moving to adopt. To enhance and strengthen my understanding of foster care these articles were examined under a thematic approach. With the goal of identifying the consistencies of instability that chaotically hamper the foster care system.
The supposed reformations that are to be provided to parents, separated from their children, does not effectively exist within the foster care system. While on the other hand many parents fail to make the proper steps towards their own reformation, the system fails to support those afflicted by a mental illness (specifically fathers). “Issues with mental health…contribute to fathers engaging in abusive or neglectful behaviors toward children.” Accounted sources of child abuse have documented evidence of an underlying affliction (or substance abuse), that negatively impaired the judgement & actions of many fathers. It is essential for many children that their parental relationship be healthy, and fathers are the foundational step within this model. Many fathers who have lost their rights allowed their afflictions to impede their commitment to parenting overall. “Might help fathers to identify how his mental health issue affects the way he conceptualizes himself as a father.” Inversely, while identifying the source of many abuse cases, it would be also beneficial for these fathers to be given the proper supports to improve themselves and evaluate their ability & aptitude. While there are expectations of responsibility already set upon the parents, there must be greater expectations set for the foster care system.
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Adolescent Minorities in Foster Care Systems and the Inadequate Attention They Receive from Society
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College of Arts, Culture and Scientific Inquiry, University of West Georgia
SOCI 3001: Communicating Sociology
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April, 2021
Adoption & foster care have fought a continuous battle with providing children with proper stable homes to live in. Not accounting for the external factors (such as irresponsible guardians) there, are many internal factors that contribute to the instability of the foster care system. Researching and examining the infrastructure of the foster care system led to several discoveries about the many flaws that exist within the system. The lack of resources, quality assurance (between guardian and child) & unorganized administration, has led to numerous counts of children being lost and/or destroyed by a system “intended” to aid them. Yet, at the same time the foster care system also fails in reforming the parents (or former guardians) of the children. The judicial system ensures that many parents receive a TPR (termination of parental rights) essentially severing the relationship between parent & child, while also contributing to the psychological trauma of foster care. Nonetheless the near future of foster care seems optimistic due to the various changes in factors of the system such as, transracial adoption & LGBTQ individuals moving to adopt. To enhance and strengthen my understanding of foster care these articles were examined under a thematic approach. With the goal of identifying the consistencies of instability that chaotically hamper the foster care system.
The supposed reformations that are to be provided to parents, separated from their children, does not effectively exist within the foster care system. While on the other hand many parents fail to make the proper steps towards their own reformation, the system fails to support those afflicted by a mental illness (specifically fathers). “Issues with mental health…contribute to fathers engaging in abusive or neglectful behaviors toward children.” Accounted sources of child abuse have documented evidence of an underlying affliction (or substance abuse), that negatively impaired the judgement & actions of many fathers. It is essential for many children that their parental relationship be healthy, and fathers are the foundational step within this model. Many fathers who have lost their rights allowed their afflictions to impede their commitment to parenting overall. “Might help fathers to identify how his mental health issue affects the way he conceptualizes himself as a father.” Inversely, while identifying the source of many abuse cases, it would be also beneficial for these fathers to be given the proper supports to improve themselves and evaluate their ability & aptitude. While there are expectations of responsibility already set upon the parents, there must be greater expectations set for the foster care system.
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2. Churchill explores ‘Layers
of Meaning’ within the
parenting experience:
• 'family' and parent child relations
• children and children's needs
• maternal and paternal
responsibilities for children
• desirable and normative parenting
and childcare practices.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
Layer One:
3. Parent-child and family relations
Key themes
1.an ethic of care
2.intimacy
3.power relations.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
Layer Two:
4. 1. An ethic of care towards children
• A distinction can be made between 'care as
work, labour and activity versus caring about'
children and ' care as an ethical orientation'
(Williams, 2004a; Doucet, 2006).
• Sevenhuijsen's (1998) notion of an ethic of
care: 'motivation towards and
sensitivities to the welfare needs of
others'.
• In ‘lay terms’: ‘children's needs come first'
(Ribbens McCarthy et al, 2000)
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
5. children's needs come first'
Measuring up to these ideals, however, is
another matter. Much research finds that the
majority of parents fear they are not 'doing
a good enough job'(Edwards, 2004; NFPI, 2001).
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
6. Gender Differences on ‘Caring For
Children’
Mothers' accounts were 'more
organised around accepting
care responsibilities for
children', 'the creation of a
stable family unit was a
strong moral theme in several
women's accounts, requiring
considerable emotional
work, mediation of
relationships and
organisation skills'
(Ribbens McCarthy et al, 2000).
The male respondents did not
perceive 'putting children first'
in such demanding `caring for'
terms, but rather referred to
constraining their leisure,
social or paid work
aspirations in order to 'be
there' for step and birth
children, often in the evenings
or at weekends. (Ribbens McCarthy et al,
2000).
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
7. Related: ‘putting family first’
• Women were influenced numerous aspects of their lives
such as
• Their 'choice' of employment: with a preference for
employment that 'fits round family commitments‘
• The informal use of `trusted and known' family members
for childcare)
• Their residential location (to be near family);
• Daily domestic and caring responsibilities, and availability
to provide support.
'Putting family first' placed considerable demands on the
women's daily lives and was not always compatible with the
demands of being 'good reliable employees' and their
breadwinning responsibilities: (Backett Milburn et al, 2008)
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
8. 2. Intimacy in parent-child relations
• The Good childhood inquiry (Layard and Dunn, 2009, p
15) stated that 'above all children need to be
loved'.
• The Counterpoint Research (2007) study discussed
found that parents valued close parent-child
relationships in terms of children's emotional well-
being (and the personal emotional rewards of
parenthood) and emphasised how 'knowing your
child' and 'good parent-child relationships' were at
the heart of 'good parenting'.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
9. Parenting: Emotional Work
• Doucet (2006) used the term `emotional responsibility'
to refer to parental commitments to children's
emotional well-being.
• Erikson (2005) conceptualises 'emotional work' within
parent-child and family relationships as a two-way
process involving all family members.
• Erikson (2005) in highlights how mothers undertake
`activities that are concerned with the
enhancement of others' emotional well-
being and with the provision of emotional support'
(Erikson, 2005, p 338),
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
10. Father’s Breadwinning
• Non-resident fathers living on low incomes can
face burdensome financial costs associated with
sustaining contact with children.
• Speak et al (1997) interviewed young non-
resident fathers who detailed the way poverty,
material deprivation and unpredictable
employment impinged on their capabilities to
provide for their children, sustain contact and
participate in recreational activities with their
children.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
11. Parenting: There’s no manual!
• Sevon (2007) found that mothers often, over
time, gained expertise in caring for their
babies, especially when they were well
supported and in good health.
• Sevon (2007) also found 'tiredness, guilt,
shame, anxiety, anger and aggression'
were often part of the experience of meeting
the demands of childcare and adapting to
parenthood.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
12. 3.Power and authority in parent-child
and generational relations
• 31 per cent reported that their family had lots of rules
• 42 per cent did not have many rules
• 27 per cent said that their policy varied.
• Almost half (49 per cent) added that the rules they did
have were strictlyenforced.
• Black Caribbean mothers were most likely to report
that they had lots of rules (39 per cent)
• While Bangladeshi mothers were the least likely
(17 per cent). (Smith, 2007)
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
13. Spare the rod, spoil the child (again)
• The Counterpoint Research (2007) study
found a keen rejection of both authoritarian
and lax parenting (the latter associated with
'allowing children to get what they want'): too
much parental control over children was
detrimental.
• But so too was lax or permissive parenting
parenting which 'indulged children' led to
'selfish and self-centred' children
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
14. ‘Power’ and Parenting Teenagers
• Lewis's (2007) study of parenting teenagers found
that many parents rejected notions of traditional
authoritarian parenting as 'impossible to achieve
in practice.
• Traditional, authoritarian parenting was
damaging to parent-child relationships and likely
to encourage children to rely more on their
friends‘.
• Instead, parents supported ideas about 'respect
for teenagers' opinions and freedoms‘.
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
15. Social Class Differences in Parenting
• Evidence suggests that parenting remains
highly gendered and demanding in better-off
families but that having a higher income
enhances access to assets, social and cultural
capital, and opportunities.
• Parents in this context can negotiate and seek
to sustain a more privileged social status for
their children, albeit not one without its own
struggles and anxieties (Devine, 2004; Ribbens, 1994).
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
16. Caring for children – What is
childcare?
Folbre and Yoon (2007, p 232) definitions of childcare
need to incorporate a range of activities such as:
• Physical care (ie feeding, bathing, dressing or attending to the
physical medical needs of a child);
• Domestic labour arising from having children in the house (such
as preparing a meal, doing the laundry, tidying up toys or cleaning the house);
• Developmental care activities (ie activities that stimulate
cognitive, emotional or social development, such as talking to your child, parental
language use, reading to a child or playing with a child);
• Logistical and managerial activities (where a parent
carries out an activity on their child's behalf, such as arranging social activities,
transporting children to activities or communicating with teachers).
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
17. Domestic Imbalance
• Women continue to carry out the bulk of informal
childcare and domestic labour.
• However, less research has examined fathers'
experiences of childcare. Lewis and Lamb (2007)
reviewed studies of fatherhood. They found that
conventional measures of childcare which focus on the
primary carer and physical day-to-day care of children
neglect fathers' contribution to childcare. Fathers have
been found to take on more responsibility for domestic
labour if they hold more egalitarian views about
gender (Lewis and Lamb, 2007)
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
18. Male/Female Patterns of Caring
Doucet (2006)
proposed that
men may care
differently to
women, with an
emphasis on
play.
Dermott (2008),
felt that fathers
are able to `select
more rewarding
activities with
children', due to
childcare or
domestic labour
being positioned
as primarily
mothers' work
Source: Harriet Churchill, 2011, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Bristol, The Policy Press.
Lewis and Lamb
(2007) found
evidence that
some studies
reported fathers
could feel
mothers had a
`gatekeeping' role
when it comes to
children's lives
and childcare
issues.