Foster Children and Their Attitudes Toward Their Natural Parents: A Study of Six New Jersey State Board of Child Welfare Foster Children Admitted to the New Jersey State Diagnostic Center, October 1957-December 1957, Comparing Their Attitudes Expressed in the Casework Interview with Attitudes Expressed under Sodium Amytal
Abstract
Over the years the ways of meeting the special needs of neglected, and dependent children have changed, as have the concepts of responsibility for their needing special help. Until about 1917 orphanages were recommended whenever youngsters presented problems to society. Beginning that year and gaining momentum in the next thirty years, a shift from the use of the institution to the use of the foster home for substitute parental care occurred. This appears to have been due to the increasing knowledge of the needs of children, and consequently a reaction against institutional care which did not seem to meet these needs. A child may be placed in a foster home because his home has been judged unfit, and his parents have been deprived of his custody; because his home has been broken by divorce, desertion, or death; or because he has been exhibiting behavior problems which could not be handled in the family environment.
Subject Area
Individual & family studies|Social work|Behavioral psychology
Recommended Citation
McGrath, Rosemary Elizabeth, "Foster Children and Their Attitudes Toward Their Natural Parents: A Study of Six New Jersey State Board of Child Welfare Foster Children Admitted to the New Jersey State Diagnostic Center, October 1957-December 1957, Comparing Their Attitudes Expressed in the Casework Interview with Attitudes Expressed under Sodium Amytal" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557629.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557629
