A Social Injustice: the effects of social inequalities in foster care and child welfare

As adults, people I meet in my daily life wish to know how I became a person today - those who understand and open minds are smaller than myself, "more" Do not insult people you do not want Lucky people see the role model. When asked the way I understood, I answered the value system my parents gave me and acknowledged their role as a civil servant in New York. My father was a policeman who worked in some of the most serious crime areas in Brooklyn and my mother worked in the child welfare social welfare department.

What is clear about social, economic and racial inequality is the child welfare system - foster care of New York City. Through my own research and discussion with my mother, I discovered an important element of the current foster care system. Children of African American occupy the largest proportion of foster child. 2. In terms of foster care, blacks and Latin American families are most likely to be reported being abused by children, and the color of children is "in the US it is working at the local level, not the national level" (Harris, 2004). The state social welfare department and the National Health and Social Welfare Department are in charge of foster care services as a whole (Harris, 2004).

Foster care is a long way in the United States, but there are still many problems in the current system. Many of these problems are the remnants of the old child welfare system. However, social workers are just starting to see new problems, researchers are just beginning to understand. In the face of all these problems, there will be a long history of foster care. Foster care can be thought based on three main values. First, robbing mothers in the early stages of life adversely affects the development of personality, and difficulties after individuals can trace back to the collapse of this early relationship. This value reflects concerns about early childhood development and the need for social workers to connect with their children as early as possible among families with problems.

They belong to the category of children and family social workers, but child welfare social workers specialize in foster parents and adoption services and strive to protect children from abuse and neglect. Child welfare social workers usually work at a child welfare institution, a group of "emergency response" social workers visiting their families for the first notification or negligence of child abuse, "backends" working with children and their families. Social workers involved in family reunification, family maintenance and / or long-term foster care, and government chief directors assign resources, change circumstances, and guide the team. Damoun Bozorgzadarbab of ASW, a clinical social worker who worked for 3 years at Los Angeles County Child Protection, summarized the core task of child welfare social workers in an interview with OnlineMSWPrograms.com.