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What is the greatest
barrier of Adoption and Foster Care?
Responses from the Foster Care/Adoption Recruitment Survey
1. All of the paperwork and the constant upkeep with it.
2. Fear of not being able to care for someone else.
3. Being afraid of not doing a good job.
4. Different things you go thru with each child
5. Fear
6. Fear about the children
7. Fear of becoming attached to the child, then losing them.
8. Fear of failing the children
9. Fear of the children
10. Fear!
11. Fear.
12. Finances
13. Finances and emotional ties that are broken when the child leaves
the foster home.
14. Finding good families that are in the best interest of the child
15. Finding YOU
16. Foster families have to share their homes and hearts with these
little ones, and sometimes give them back to the very people that
hurt/re-hurt them.
17. Funding/ lack of communication or consideration of foster parents
concerns
18. Getting people to understand that these are basically "normal"
kids who need our help.
19. Having social worker complete their end of paperwork.
20. How long the process takes
21. How to deal with different children
22. I feel like the whole licensing process is the greatest barrier;
it takes the agencies to long to get the home studies and everything
else after the PRIDE class done.
23. I think the additional financial expense is a barrier.
24. Knowledge of the need
25. Lack of compassion - sometimes. Fear of the unknown most of
the time.
26. Lack of good promotion and correct information.
27. Lack of information
28. Lack of knowledge
29. Lack of knowledge about it
30. Lack of support by workers
31. Lack of targeting the upper class market, people with influence,
money, abilities
32. Letting go
33. Letting them go
34. Location and time of the training
35. Making time to go the classes
36. Miscommunication between the people and agencies
37. Misinformation, flaws in the system
38. Not being educated on Foster Parenting
39. Not having enough families who are willing to take older children
(7-16)
40. Not having enough resources to provide a safe place for all
the kids
41. Now, both parents have to work. My concern is that the children
will have special needs and I won't be able to meet them because
I work.
42. Paperwork
43. People not understanding why the children are in foster care
and what might happen in the future.
44. People think their house or themselves may not qualify
45. Personal costs in every area
46. Possible allegations
47. Proving yourself
48. Red tape rules that keep good families that REALLY care about
the children from becoming foster homes.
49. Red tape, and fear that children will be placed back in obviously
abusive homes.
50. Releasing the kids back into their situation if it has not truly
improved
51. Sometimes the child protective services staff
52. Space in people's houses and the desire to parent for those
who have the space - perhaps they don't believe they can make a
difference.
53. Standards are way too high!
54. That you get too attached
55. The actual process of becoming one and deciding with your family
if this is something that you would all like to do because being
a foster family will effect everyone in the household.
56. The child getting use to new surroundings.
57. The children could be taken away from the home.
58. The inability to go places as you would with your own children
due to constraints of visits and such.
59. The legal side of cases.
60. The length of time it takes to go through the pride class, do
the home study, get approval, etc. Many of my friends are very open
to foster care or adoption, especially of older children, but when
we talk about the process, they get discouraged and are reluctant
to begin.
61. The long approval process
62. The long process to get started
63. The negative situations that foster kids could bring to a home.
64. The problems of why each child is placed in foster care. But
with enough love and understanding, each child can benefit from
a new life/family style.
65. The process is daunting. I agree it shouldn't be so easy that
people can just decide on a whim to sign up.
66. The red tape and dealing with over worked social workers
67. The suspicion that a child will "act out" his/her
abuse
68. The system. The children are easy to deal with compared to dealing
with caseworkers and supervisors.
69. The time it takes for the meeting and the waiting for your child
placement
70. The unknown feature once the child leaves your home...
71. Timing
72. Unable to reach enough qualified people who are able and willing
to give care the kids may need.
73. Understanding the process
74. Un-involvement
75. When the child has to leave
76. You could get attached to the foster child and then they can
be taken from you home
77. You might lose a child back to his/hers parent after bonding
with them over an extended period of time.
78. Yourself |
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