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Should foster care systems within the United States implement more efficient ways to prevent child abuse within the system itself?

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The foster care system has many positive attributes but many negative attributes to. The most wide known negative attribute to a foster care system is the abuse towards the foster kids. Day to day these kids are being abused mentally and experience traumatic events throughout their time within the system. Studies within the US have shown the impacts of foster care on the kids themselves and even how epidemics in the US impact the foster care system and the outcome of the kids themselves.

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According to Linda K. Smith, a graduate from the University of Montana and also with history of years being put forth into childhood development, states, "While research on the impacts of NAS is just beginning, the importance of a child’s first year of life cannot be overstated. Research is clear on infant brain development: the brain develops at a considerable rate during the first several years of life, with each second producing more than a million neural connections. And during this period — as well as during the prenatal period — environmental factors strongly influence both an infant’s brain development and their social-emotional regulation."

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In stating this, Smith is trying to inform the public of the opioid epidemic that is causing infants in early stages to have mental disorders such as down syndrome. Smith explains that the early stages of a youth's mind has not even developed so when these pregnant women are taking these harmful drugs they are causing great casualties to the infant. In these cases the infant goes into the foster care system and is then in a lifelong line of being over medicated and not having a home due to the actions the mother took.

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NASCAW, a group conducted of many university professors, expresses, "Those who experienced sexual abuse were the most likely to also experience other forms of maltreatment. Nearly two-thirds of those experiencing sexual abuse were not adequately supervised, one-third were also physically abused, and over one-fifth were not adequately provided for. "

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Brittany Clark, a former foster child, "Only one of the boys was my biological brother. During my time in that home, I was physically and sexually manipulated. So many things went on there, but only my outbursts were reported to my social worker. I even was put in the home of a different member of that family so that the foster parent would continue getting paid."

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As Clark shares her story, this relates to the ongoing problem of what foster kids have to go through. Through Clarks little piece of information you can see the physical abuse and that they continued to pay the family after she was moved with the same family but a different member. When an abuse report is filed the system will usually move the child but what has happened to them will not change. Sometimes it is more than once a child will actually have to move houses.

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In stressing this, NASCAW has found out many details/facts from their studies including the physical abuse towards foster children. These facts found show that due to the foster child and their mental status these parents or anyone can now take advantage of these kids and they won't know any different. That is one thing that is a problem in america and all people do are abuse the system.

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                                      WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT

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                                      WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT

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This topic is important because nothing has worked in the past to change the outcome of foster care and the child abuse within. If this problem were to be solved then there would be: smaller amounts of taxes being paid, better future for foster children, and less homeless and inmates in prison.

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These two people are opposed with the above sources

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                                      Pamella Red

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Pamella is a current foster parent and believes that it is because of the children and how they are that the system is so bad.

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Wendy is a division administrator of adult children and family services at DHS and believes that there is not much abuse within the system.

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She states, "’I've had children I had to pat down after leaving stores to make sure they didn’t steal anything. I’ve had children that had to be separated during naptime because they would have sex or try to. We’re not talking about teenagers here, were talking about a four year old boy and his three-year-old sister. I’ve had children I couldn’t take in public because their foul language would curl the hair on a sailor. I’ve had children with rectal prolapse from being raped by mom’s customers."

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Rickman shares, “For the kids that reside in foster care in the state of Iowa, 99.7 percent of the time are free from any kind of maltreatment — 99.7 percent. Is it 100 percent? It obviously is not,” said Wendy Rickman, division administrator of adult children and family services at DHS."

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When Pamella argues this, she gestures it in a way as to blame the children for how she is as a foster mom and why you shouldn't foster because of their actions.

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In arguing this, Rickman believes that there is no abuse within the foster care system. Rickman fails to realize though that there have been many cases within the system that have been proven to be because of foster care.