There are a shocking number of Hispanic children in foster care in the United States. These children can not find a permanent home for its reputation as a place where they can feel safe and be loved. The problem affects the child's future and the community as a whole.
Approximately 20,000 children aged by the system of custody without ever having a permanent homes each year. Latest figures show there were 513,000 children in foster care in the United States in 2007. Ofthis number is one of five Latinos (or Latino) origin.
The reasons for this figure are:
• Poverty and drug abuse, especially in the poorest areas in large urban centers
• Parents have limited support
• Parents do not have access to useful resources, such as education of parents
• Some of these parents are immigrants who ask no relatives in the United States, which would not have the natural support that they have in their country,
• Many of theThese families also move around a lot
The parents of these children are stressed, are not good examples, and neglect or abuse their children. The Child Protective Services removed the child from home to her in care.
Hispanic and Latino children growing up in the system of trust-Report:
• It 'hard to move and are separated from siblings. They are often jumped around, most other schools have placements with little consistency in their livesgeneral.
• You must learn as part of a family and their faith and / or culture.
• The process of culture and beliefs of particular families in which they found, is to learn again and again.
• The adjustment is for both children and families, provides for the custody and many of the children are hard to find outside of these houses.
E 'need for children to receive adequate support, structure, love, patience and guidance.If these things are not there, like a child had to have a higher risk for:
• emotional problems
• incomplete and / or failure Education
• lack of social skills
• Risk, a part of the criminal justice
That will help these children?
Voices for Children Foundation of Miami-Dade County and the 11th Judicial Circuit Guardian ad litem program, a number of agencies to assist displaced dedicated to children Hispanics. The assumption isemphasize the need to take Spanish families or to promote children Latin.
There is a shortage of houses for Latin Stage. Adoption was made clear the connection of a child a life of Latino Hispanic family is very important.
Adoption and foster parenting is not the only way these children can help. Some volunteer their time and a guardian or court appointed guardian.
There is also assistance for adoptive parents and:
• AccessTraining
• The financial support to adoption subsidies and Medicaid
• A parent, a child with special needs can take a tax credit
• adoptive parents can also help you get into a foster care or adoption of a child by public organizations, such as domestic services and management of social services for children and families.
E 'alarming to note that 99,000 Latino children will be placed in foster care, age, and their meetingexpect it to homelessness. Are part of the forgotten children of America.
Source: Rousseau, M. (2008, April). Children forgotten Americans, Hispanics, 21 (4), 44-46. From June 20, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.
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