Foster Home Care for Children of Puerto Rican Descent: An Analysis of the Adjustment of Sixteen Children Placed in American and Hispanic Foster Homes Under the Supervision of the Foster Home Program at St. Dominic's School, Blauvelt, New York, 1957 – 1961
Abstract
Background of the Study. As a result of poverty, illness, and particularly, family breakdown, large numbers of children of Puerto Rican parentage are in need of long term care away from their own home. By 1960 and thereafter, there will be even more Puerto Rican children in need of placement. It is believed that twenty-five per cent of the Puerto Rican families in New York City are broken families in which there is only one parent.Foster care as such is new to these people. On the Island, when parents are unable to care for their children, there are always relatives and friends who act as substitute parents. Children do not have to be placed with strangers, and the environment remains the same.In order to understand the problems of the Puerto Ricans in the United States, one must know and understand their culture and customs. The Puerto Rican culture and customs are primarily Spanish, since the Spaniards were the first settlers and colonizers of the Island. Al- though Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898, the Spanish customs, language, and culture prevail among the Puerto Ricans.
Subject Area
American studies|Caribbean Studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Marquez, Joseph R, "Foster Home Care for Children of Puerto Rican Descent: An Analysis of the Adjustment of Sixteen Children Placed in American and Hispanic Foster Homes Under the Supervision of the Foster Home Program at St. Dominic's School, Blauvelt, New York, 1957 – 1961" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050518.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050518
