Emotional, Behavioral Issues Affect Many Kids in Foster Care
Identifying such problems may lead to improved care for these children, researchers suggest.
Behavioral and emotional problems are common in children who live in long-term foster care, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.
“Better identifying and assisting children with, or at risk of developing such problems upon entry to foster care and throughout their out-of-home placement, may alleviate their needs and troubles and provide mechanisms for supporting them as they get older,” Wendy Walsh, research associate at the Carsey Institute at the UNH and a colleague wrote in the report.
The authors looked at a nationally representative sample of children placed in out-of-home care between July 1998 and February 1999. After four years, 43 percent of the children were still in out-of-home care, including 22
Gutierrez Calls on Obama to Use Discretionary Power to End Deportation of DREAMers (VIDEO)
Comprehensive immigration reform is not coming any time soon, says Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). But that doesn’t mean President Barack Obama cannot use his discretionary power to end deportations of young people, he says.
Gutierrez called for the president to issue such an order last night at a rally in Chicago organized by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other community and immigrant rights groups in Chicago. Long known as a champion for immigrants’ rights, Gutierrez argued that while legislative movement on immigration reform is unlikely now, given the current composition of Congress, it is possible for President Obama to issue an executive order ending the deportations