Adolescent Foster Children: A Study of the Awareness and Acceptance of Background Information by Nine Children Presently Under the Supervision of the Westchester District of the New York Foundling Hospital

Helen Regina Reilly, Fordham University

Abstract

Who am I? This is a question each of us must ask himself. The answer is not easily reached, even for the mature adult. How much more difficult this becomes for the adolescent foster child.The foster child lives with a family unrelated by blood and frequently of a different culture,and socioeconomic level. Sometimes he knows his own family; sometimes he does not.

Subject Area

Social work|Developmental psychology|Individual & family studies|Social psychology

Recommended Citation

Reilly, Helen Regina, "Adolescent Foster Children: A Study of the Awareness and Acceptance of Background Information by Nine Children Presently Under the Supervision of the Westchester District of the New York Foundling Hospital" (1967). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30359832.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30359832

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