Role of Family Preservation in Child Welfare

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Role of family preservation in child welfare
Child Welfare policy in family preservation was introduced as a support system to keep
children in a family environment rather than keeping them in a foster home or orphanage.
This was done keeping in mind about the fact that children get proper food, care and
healthy environment for their overall development. To prevent the maltreatment of the
child and the children whose parents are no longer able to meet the necessary means for
taking care of child in those cases family preservation is an important scenario. However,
this type of treatment may differ from culture to culture and may involve different
organizational structure to receive culturally equivalent atmosphere especially in case of
immigrants (Choi et al., 2013). The family preservation and child welfare enables the
society an economic benefit from the rising costs of living in foster care homes (Popple
& Leighninger, 2016). It is suggested in a study that poverty is one of the essential cause
of maltreatment of the children, and therefore, role family preservation gives new hope to
the people who are not able provide necessary care for the child (Hearn, 2014).
Think about whether you agree with the research, and whether there are any gaps
in your state foster care system that might contribute to the assumptions.
Along with maltreatment and abuse, the foster care system, has certain gaps and there are
certain loopholes that generate assumptions. It is often seen that foster care is related with
negligence and abuse that or there is an association of foster care placement which is
related adult criminalities. However, it is found that the development of a child mentally
and physically depends on the parameters of a steady and stable foster care placement in