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Thomas, M., Allen, R., Westerfelt, A., & Piliavin, I. (2012). //"Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis."//. Retrieved May 3, 2012, from []

> cannot cope. > parents for an indefinite period of time and dispose of them as they see fit > different location, a different school, and different peers, but to a different culture as well. > are considered crucial, for the essence of foster care is that it is a temporary expedient, since "it is generally agreed that it is in the best interests of children to live with their families. > parents and the less likely becomes the option of adoption. >
 * 1) When children are abused or neglected by their parents, or when the parents cannot- for any of a number of reasons- care for their children, someone must intervene to see that the children are adequately looked after.
 * 2) The adjustment to foster care would be difficult enough forchildren from stable backgrounds, but the children requiring foster care can seldom be so described.
 * 3) Most, between 75 and 80 percent-are taken from their homes because their parents fail to care for them adequately.
 * 4) Between 15 and 20 percent of foster children enter the system because they have problems with which the parents
 * 1) To the question, "What is best for the child?" no firm answer can be given because the parenting behavior of families in stress is highly unpredictable, and the impact of foster care remains to be measured.
 * 2) Social agencies have no more awesome power than the right-with due process of law-to take children from their
 * 1) The child may be placed with a family, relatives or strangers, in a group home (where up to a dozen foster children live under the continuous supervision of a parental figure), or in an institution.
 * 2) Foster care is an enormous upheaval in the life of a child, who often must adjust not only to a different family, a
 * 1) Biological parents may maintain their physical and emotional ties with the child. In fact these ties
 * 1) It is argued that this temporary expedient often becomes a permanent state, from which the child escapes only into adulthood and putative independence.
 * 2) The longer a child is in foster care, it is argued, the more he or she becomes estranged from his biological
 * 1) For no sooner was it established as a solution to the problem of unprotected children than it began to be seen as a problem itself, standing in the way of reunifying families.
 * 2) The system is blamed for maintaining children in temporary situations when the best arrangement for them is permanent placement in homes with biological or adopted parents.
 * 3) Indeed, caseworkers would sometimes deliberately move a child who was establishing strong bonds with a foster family, if that child was expected eventually to return home.
 * 4) Given that foster care continues to be the fate of so many children, it is not surprising that researchers should ask howit affects a child's ability to function as an adult.