Deck 11: Children in Family Foster Care

Question 1

Children born while their mothers are incarcerated

A) may be placed in foster care.
B) rarely come into foster care because family will take them.
C) are removed at birth and placed for adoption.
D) never meet their mothers.

Answer 1

may be placed in foster care.

Question 2

One of the main problems with recruiting foster parents through the media is that

A) Many of the applicants cannot afford to foster children.
B) Many of the resulting applicants may lack the necessary qualities to become foster parents.
C) Many of the applicants have previous biological children in care.
D) Many of the applicants are only applying for the money.

Answer 2

Many of the resulting applicants may lack the necessary qualities to become foster parents.

Question 3

What is the first feeling experienced by parents whose children are taken away and placed in foster care?

A) acceptance
B) despair
C) relief
D) shock

Answer 3

shock

Question 4

The involvement of natural parents with their children in care

A) is usually illegal and therefore not allowed.
B) should be discouraged, as it can upset everyone.
C) should be encouraged, as it is beneficial for the children.
D) is only allowed if a police officer and social worker are present.

Question 5

One duty often not performed sufficiently by the foster care worker in the past was to

A) prepare the children for foster care.
B) provide case management.
C) help foster parents grieve when they lost their children.
D) help parents release their children for adoption.

Question 6

Professionalization of foster parents seems to be a trend for the future. Why might this be problematic?

A) Each agency defines the role of foster parents differently.
B) The quality of care will necessarily decrease.
C) Foster parents will be less qualified.
D) It will be even more difficult to match foster parents and children.

Question 7

How did foster care change after WWII?

A) More impoverished families were forced to place their children in foster care.
B) Foster care was used more often than institutions.
C) Fewer foster parents were available to care for children.
D) Newborns were no longer allowed to be placed in foster care directly from the hospital.

Question 8

Why can separation from a birth parent have a profound effect on children?

A) One of a child's deepest fears is abandonment.
B) Children are rarely able to adapt to new settings.
C) It is always best for a child to remain with the birth parent.
D) Foster parents are often in it for the money and don't care about the child.

Question 9

An abandoned child is found by his neighbor. Where would this child most likely go to stay that night?

A) a small group home
B) a family boarding home
C) an adoptive home
D) a crisis home

Question 10

A social worker visits a prospective foster parent's home to screen him. This falls under which category?

A) follow-up
B) placement
C) recruitment
D) homestudy

Question 11

Why is being a foster parent a difficult role?

Question 12

Why do most children come into foster care?

Question 13

Give an example of a statement birth parents might make when they find out their child is being placed in foster care.

Question 14

Apply your knowledge of the history of foster care to indicate one way in which foster care has changed since the early 1900s.

Question 15

Propose the best care plan for the following child: Janine is three years old. Janine's mother frequently leaves her alone for stretches of 3-6 hours while she goes out to the bar. Janine's grandmother lives nearby and is stable and willing to take Janine.

Question 16

What is the difference between crisis care and kinship care?

Question 17

Examine the role of the foster care social worker. How can this individual be most effective?

Question 18

What are the differences between stresses faced by foster parents and stresses faced by foster children?

Question 19

Create a series of guidelines for helping foster children deal with feelings about placement and separation.

Question 20

Describe the emotional impact reunification has on the foster parents.

Question 21

Recommend ways in which a foster family can prepare to welcome a foster child.