PSY 3123 Lecture 7: Children -- Yes or No? Part II
10 Feb 2017
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Psy3123 c - lecture 7: children yes or no? continued. Provision of care by a family, other than a parent/guardian of a child, approved and arranged by child welfare authority. Children in foster care because parents don"t have skills to handle more dif cult children. Advances in medical science mean canadian children unlikely to be orphaned. With improvements in bene ts for single parents, children less likely to enter foster care because of extreme property. More likely to be in foster care because of behavioural problems or as victims of neglect or abuse. Children entering care tend to be older than before, and have many more emotional and physical problems. Aboriginal children overrepresented in foster care, as well as children with special needs. 76 000 to 85 000 children currently in foster care in canada. Foster families are in short supply, given problems foster children can bring to families and women"s increased workforce participation outside the home.
