The Effect of Breakdowns of Foster Home Placements on the Survival of the School Age Child's Subsequent Placements
Titel:
The Effect of Breakdowns of Foster Home Placements on the Survival of the School Age Child's Subsequent Placements
Auteur:
Kraus, J.
Verschenen in:
Australian social work
Paginering:
Jaargang 26 (1973) nr. 2 pagina's 21-23
Jaar:
1973-06
Inhoud:
The usual family circumstances which lead to a child being in need of foster care are likely to have an adverse effect on his adjustment. Few experts would disagree with the proposition that such a child's maladjustment would probably increase further with changes of foster parents. Since maladjustment manifests itself commonly in behaviour difficulties, it seems reasonable to assume that children whose foster placements broke down would present greater management problems (and hence be less acceptable to foster parents) than children in their first placement. In fact, one authority suggested that foster home breakdowns are associated with “damage in personality growth of sufficient seriousness to create doubts whether they (the children) could be successfully refostered in ordinary homes” (Williams, 1961, p. 19). There are at least three studies which report that breakdowns tend to occur with an increasing rapidity with each successive foster home (Oswald, 1964; Ambinder, 1965; Napier, 1972). However, other studies do not confirm these findings (Parker, 1966; George, 1970); on the contrary, children who had one previous foster home placement were more successful than children who had none (Parker, 1966).
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