Placement Instability and Risky Behaviors of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Stott, Tonia

doi:10.1007/s10560-011-0247-8

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“…Many other young adults, not from foster care, have the continued support of their parents into adulthood (Clark, 2007;Statistics Canada, 2007). Research has identified that former youth in-care have a higher likelihood, compared to their peers, of: incarceration, substance abuse, homelessness, mental illness, and not completing high school (Drowsky & Courtney, 2009;Freundlich & Avery, 2006;Landvoy, 2009;Stott, 2012;Tweddle, 2005).…”

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“…In some cases, a feeling of powerlessness is almost inevitable, given the numerous decisions made for them (Samuels, 2008;Schofield & Beck, 2009;Stott, 2012). In child protection cases, children sometimes have no choice regarding their removal from family, community, and school.…”

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“…There are effects from every move, from the initial removal to placement changes. Placement changes can often lead to more distance from the individual's home, friends, and family, as well as changes in visitation schedules (Samuels, 2008;Stott, 2012).…”

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“…There are also the emotional and social impacts that come with changes in foster homes (Stein & Dumaret, 2011;Stott, 2012).…”

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“…Placement instability also contributed to substance use as young adults, perhaps to cope with feelings o f hopelessness and helplessness (Stott, 2012). Placement instability is also connected with mental health disorders; indeed, research has shown that children in foster care have higher rates of mental illness than their peers (Stein & Dumaret, 2011).…”

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The realities of a group of young adults after aging out of foster care in northern British Columbia.

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“…There are also the emotional and social impacts that come with changes in foster homes (Stein & Dumaret, 2011;Stott, 2012).…”

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The realities of a group of young adults after aging out of foster care in northern British Columbia.

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Are Obese Children Abused Children?

Priest¹

2018

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In 2010, a South Carolina mother was taken to court when her fourteen‐year‐old son reached 555 pounds. An article on the story reported, “His mother, Jerri Gray, lost custody of her son and is being charged with criminal neglect. Gray is facing 15 years on two felony counts, the first U.S. felony case involving childhood obesity.” If the caretakers of obese children are negligent, then they are also morally and legally blameworthy. I want to suggest, however, that important ethical differences exist between negligent or abusive caretakers and the caretakers of obese children and that these differences ought to make a moral and legal difference. The distinctions are nuanced, and the ethical pictures in cases of abuse, neglect, and obesity are far from black and white. However, the various types of harm that children face from their caretakers should be placed in neither the same ethical nor the same legal category. When children are beaten or sexually molested, the justification for taking them out of the home is clear: the caretakers are violating the rights of their children. Similarly, with neglect, caretakers are failing to provide their children the necessities to which they are entitled. The central question that I want to address in this article is whether the actions (or inaction) of caretakers that allow a child to become obese are morally or practically analogous to physical abuse or neglect. Ultimately, I will argue that parenting that allows a child to become obese is so morally different from both abuse and neglect that it is best understood as falling outside these categories altogether. This conclusion has important moral, practical, and legal implications.

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