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//Foster Care: A Psychological War//. (2001). Retrieved September 6, 2012, from Charlotte Weldon website: http://www4.samford.edu/schools/artsci/scs/weldon.html

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 * 1) In order to experience all the emotions presented in changing homes, foster children must master and deal with feelings provoked by separation from their biological parents and the feelings resulting from being presented with new parents.
 * 2) They must process any consequential feelings aroused from separation of any kind from the new parents, and also overcome the fear of developing closeness with the new parents
 * 3) Removing children from biological parents is a result of three main causes taking place in the original home: abuse, neglect, and drug usage.
 * 4) When a child is exposed to negative environmental conditions during the development of the brain and nervous system, serious effects will occur.
 * 5) These effects could be as small as a child not being able to make eye contact or can be as severe as a child never developing a conscience and having no conception of right and wrong. “These children may be very alert yet avoid eye contact.
 * 6) They are often aggressive and hyperactive, and show indiscriminate affection toward strangers…This may mean that in early childhood these children did not receive the consistent mothering necessary to develop an organized nervous system.
 * 7) Most effects result from a parent’s neglect of a child and in many cases can be diagnosed as reactive attachment disorder, resulting in, “the child [being] unable to attach to a primary caregiver and go through the normal development that children must go through in order to function in relationships.
 * 8) Scars resulting from numerous separations and placements and no treatment of attachment disorder can be critical, sometimes progressing to the point of autism.
 * 9) When a child emerges into an unhealthy environment into a school setting, many displays of destructive behavior take place.
 * 10) “Unable to tolerate delay, fearful of the future, and using activity rather than language, they quickly become labeled as classroom problems”
 * 11) “Older children who have been repeatedly traumatized suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and automatically freeze when they feel anxious, and therefore are considered oppositional or defiant by those who interact with them”
 * 12) As a result of experiencing repeated traumatizing events in the biological and foster home, older children who receive no treatment for psychological scaring suffer adverse effects.
 * 13) As a result of experiencing physical abuse and neglect as a very young child and receiving no treatment for reactive attachment disorder, the effects at times may be very severe.
 * 14) As a child coming from various unhealthy environments continues to grow and enter into new stages of life, he or she may not being able to rise to a given challenge; they in turn run from any such challenge.
 * 15) Children receiving no treatment for the effects of attachment disorder only continue through life unable to form healthy relationships and successfully meet any sort of challenge that may be presented.