Group Homes

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This paper examines how the entire concept of providing any type of foster care for children is to insure the physical safety and emotional well-being of these children. It looks at how the objective remains to provide the best care possible and whatever environment or setting is selected, it must meet the needs of the child and be a supportive, safe haven from the disruptive nature of his previous living situation. It explores how the system itself needs to be evaluated and perhaps reformed at the local, state ,and federal level and shows how, in all cases, children who are part of this system do suffer some type of fundamental breakdown in their emotional development. It discusses how the best solution that can be hoped for is for more research, better policies, and more coverage on these special needs children by the media and special interest groups; new policy initiatives and improvements in the existing system infrastructure can only lead the way to better solutions for these children.

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"Out-of-home placement is typically associated with numerous disruptions in attachment relationships. These losses and lack of permanence undermine a child's attempt to form a secure attachment with a primary caregiver. The more changes in caregivers young children in any type of foster care experience, the more likely they are to exhibit oppositional behavior, crying and clinging (Gean, Gillmore & Dowler, 1985). Disruptions in attachment relationships can lead to Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), a disorder in which the child exhibits severe disturbances in relationships with caregivers."

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