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Obstacles of Foster Care

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There is not much known about what happens to adolescents who are faced with certain obstacles in foster care. There were a few studies that have examine the impact of adolescent pregnancy in foster care in multiple placements. Adolescent pregnancy is something that is seen as normal, because it is happening everywhere. This study is done to understand why adolescents in foster care who come from a background of being placed within multiple homes are seriously affected by high pregnancy rates. It examines not only placements, but as well as family history, problems, and whether or not they are being taught the important information on sex. The study also examine what are the different risk factors and what determine adolescents to engage in sexual intercourse that leads to pregnancy. We then examine the outcomes of teen pregnancy in foster care and how they can be worse for adolescent mothers who are in the system whether than adolescents who are not. We are going to try to figure out how can we find a way to lower the rates of adolescent pregnancy in foster care and multiple placements for these girls. There is one-third of the approximately 460,000 children in the foster care system are between the ages of thirteen and eighteen years(A8p26). Each year, a significant number of adolescents become pregnant in the United States(A8).There is an estimate of one in six girls in the United States who give birth before they even reach the age of twenty (A4). Recent estimates show that adolescents in the foster care system at an elevated risk for pregnancy, with more than fifty percent of female youth in foster care having been pregnant at least once before the age of nineteen years, compared with twenty seven percent of the general population(A8p26). Studies have shown that wards of child protective services are more vulnerable to the hazards of teenage pregnancy and parenthood than girls not involved with child protective services (article 2

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