CD-47854f
No Labels Needed.
Aguilar, Claudia.
Journal Article
Copyright
Published: May-June 2014
Fostering Families Today
Vol. 14, No. 2
, p. 34-35
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This article explains labels can be damaging and that children who enter the foster care system have multiple problems and additional labels only creates additional barriers for them. It notes the term “special needs” in the foster care system refers to ethnicity or racial background, part of a sibling group, age, and other risk factors that makes the child unadoptable and is misleading and can have serious implications for the child.
Keywords:
foster children; special needs; definitions; self concept; POSITIVE ADOPTION LANGUAGE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS