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Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential: What Childhood Neglect Tells Us About Nature and Nurture
This source, written by Bruce D. Perry, describes how the nature vs nurture dilemma is linked to proper child development. Abuse Studies done in orphanages show that children who lack the emotional and physical contact from loved ones suffer the most. If a child does not receive the nurture from a family member or guardian that is needed, the results can be devastating. -
Resilience of Youth in Transition From Out-of-Home Care to Adulthood
This article written by Clara Daining and Diane DePanifilis describe the personal and interpersonal characteristics that different youth attain that will allow them to be functional human beings, once out of foster care systems. This study examined support systems, stress the child may have, and the resilience they will have coming out of these programs. -
The Impact of Placement Stability on Behavioral Well-being for Children in Foster Care
This source explains the negative effects that foster care can have on a child. Foster care is a very temporary situation leaving most kids in this program to have a very unstable and ever changing lifestyle. It is very important for a child to grow up and have some sort of place to call "home". The instability that foster care provides can lead a child to feel unloved and they will never find a sense of self. -
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parenting on the Academic Functioning of Young Homeless Children
In Janette Herber's article of "Direct and Indirect Effects of Parenting on the Academic Functioning of Young Homeless Children", describes a research study which concluded that young homeless children struggled tremendously after their parents went to emergency homeless shelters. Teachers of these children reported that the kids suffered intellectually and behaviorally. This source directly implies that parents have an important role in their child's life, and families should not be seperated. -
The Unique Impact of Out-of-Home Placement and the Mediating Effects of Child Maltreatment and Homelessness on Early School Success
This source written by John Fantuzzo and Staci Perlman explains how Multiple Logistic Regression analyses have shown that children who have been placed in out of home placement programs have higher illiteracy rates, and they had more school suspensions than other kids. -
Twenty-Five Years of Child and Family Homelessness: Where Are We Now?
This article describes the historical context of family homelessness that has been occurring now for over 25 years. Using studies from the 1980s, this source concluded that children living in poverty with their families proved to have negative effects on their lives. 25 years later this problem is still an on going issue in the process of being resolved across the world.