Tag: Foster System
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How The Indian Child Welfare Legal Challenge Could Change Foster Situations For Tribal Children (Pt 1)
There was a time in US history where the number of tribal children removed from their homes and sent to boarding schools around the country as a government-sanctioned part of their “re-education”. They were forbidden to speak their native languages, forbidden to practice their native beliefs, and forbidden from wearing their native clothing, or engaging…
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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at some of the challenges that foster families face that biological families usually don’t encounter. In the previous article we looked at two very common issues, namely the behavioral and medical issues that foster kids often suffer as a result of trauma, and the…
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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 1)
For most biological parents who are only raising their own kids, they decide what they want their children’s lives to look like, and they base their rules and family policies on that projection. “Only organic food”, “an emphasis on education”, “must speak a second language” or “limits on screen time” are good examples. You get…