Essays on Child Welfare

Canada has a wide spectrum of programs covered by our social safety net and a robust range of government transfer payments to individuals. However, our government is severely inadequate in providing sufficient childcare programs and subsidiaries to support parents who are full-time professionals. Canadian child...

Child Protective Services (CPS) is a government funded agency that was put in place to protect children against abuse, neglect, and endangerment. When CPS becomes involved with a family, it is because an intake was called in. The intake can be called in by a...

In the field of health and human services, information technology has been increasing quickly. Information technology among social welfare organizations can best be defined as social networking. Information technology can go back to the 1960s when closed-circuit video was used as the primary instrument and...

Child welfare agencies are in charge of ensuring the safety, stability and the overall well-being of children who have been either abused, neglected or children who are at risk of abuse and neglect. Services are provided by states and counties to include services for children...

13,700 children are abused every day in the United States (“ child welfare”). Four of these children die each day as a result of abuse and/or neglect(“Home – Child Welfare Information Gateway”). This is way to much for children and it should not be happening...

In order for children to grow up mentally and physically well, agencies of socialization are needed as during this process, they will learn the basic values and norms that will help them in their later life. A family is the most important socio-economic institutions of...

This article primarily focuses on how children in foster care and the juvenile justice system have mental health issues. This article also goes into depth about the risks of being put in foster homes, and how that affects the children physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially....

A perfect world is unrealistic, everyone has imperfections. As a whole society we need to strive to improve ourselves and each other’s actions and way of living. A specific social problem I have read into is the orphanage problem in society. There are millions of...