Conclusion part only 1-2 pages APA Format on the Foster Care System

3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Draft of Community Need, Credibility, and Applicability

Kevin Menard

Southern New Hampshire University

3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Draft of Community Need, Credibility, and Applicability

I. Describe the community need in your local community or a community of your choice, and explain why you chose this issue.

The need or issue that we are going to address in this assignment is the foster care system in the United States. We say that the future of a great nation lies in the hands of our children because they are the individuals who will lead our future generations. The welfare of children in a country is therefore very important. There are so many children in the United States that need to be adopted, and there are about 800,000 children every year that go through the foster care system in the country. The main intention of the foster care system in the United States is to ensure that children are provided with a safe and comfortable environment to grow up. However, over the years this system has failed repeatedly in delivering this objective. This is because there are so many children put in foster care who undergo harsh living conditions due to abuse, neglect, and lack of stability as they are switched from one home to another. Statistics show that more than 60,000 children in foster care go through neglect and abuse every year (Mitchell, 2016). For children welfare to be improved, we need to address this issue, and this is the reason why I picked this issue.

II. Assess the primary and secondary sources for their credibility, justifying how the sources are or are not credible. How do you know the sources are credible? How do you know the sources are not credible?

The research on this issue will be based both on primary and secondary sources. The primary sources to be used in this research are foster parents, children, and the institutions that place children into foster homes. The secondary sources to be used will include the National Institute of Health research on the topic and Children Bureau research.

One can know if a source is credible or not depending on whether or not information received from this source can be trusted (Grudzina & Kolba, 2008). I believe that my secondary sources are highly credible because the information will be gathered from United States government research works which are highly used and trusted. For the primary sources, information provided may not be so credible mainly because the sources to be questioned may hide a lot of information or even lie for reasons such as fear of being exposed. An example of this would be that the foster parents are being compelled to lie for the foster children to uphold their reputation.

III. Assess the primary and secondary sources for their applicability to your research, justifying how the sources are or are not applicable. How will the sources support your research question? How do the sources you’ve found appropriately cover the range of research needed to address your topic?

Both sources are highly applicable to this research. This is because they will help provide information that directly relates to the topic being discussed in the research. The primary sources will help provide information on the condition of foster care, challenges, the statistics of children in foster care, the rate of abuse and negligence, and rate of movement from one home to another along with the various loopholes in the system. The secondary sources will also help provide statistics to compare, information on the various challenges facing foster care system, and the consequences of foster care in the country. This information will help devise strategies for improving the system which is the whole point of this research.

References

Grudzina, D. & Kolba, B. (2008). Writing an A+ research paper: a roadmap for beginning and experienced writers. Clayton, Del: Prestwick House.

Mitchell, M. (2016). The neglected transition: building a relational home for children entering foster care. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.

Padot, R. (2015). Politics of foster care administration in the United States. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.