Finding Homes for Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Finding homes for infants, children, and adolescents who are homeless within the United States as well as other countries without parents or parents who have lost their parental rights have been placed within the foster care system early on in life find themselves waiting to be adopted after many foster placements longing and yearning for a home. How can finding homes for homeless infants, children, and adolescents are accomplished since foster homes are limited and more adoptive parents are needed? As it is the objective to stop the cycle of homelessness; it should also be the objective to find more homes through public service announcements, advertising, and marketing that more foster homes are needed and more adoptive parents are needed. Within every DHR, Department of Human Resources foster care parenting classes are held in order to become a foster parent. There are state adoptions, open adoptions, closed adoptions, and there are international adoptions. In some cases there are waiting lists for international adoptions. As there are millions of infants, children, and adolescents within the states and other countries that need safe and secure homes filled with love and respect as a child learns to trust, respect himself or herself, respect others, and to establish a strong identity and self-image that is part of the person-in environment. Finding homes for infants, children, and adolescents is a protective factor for families by providing homes through foster homes prior to adoption or not is more than just an opportunity. It is a responsibility entrusted in building, restoring, and establishing a life through means of providing a respectful, loving, nurturing, trusting environment that is a supportive home filled with love for infants to adolescents who have experienced abandonment and rejection. As you can imagine the impact and affects of abandonment and rejection within a person mentally and emotionally are critical within the life course perspective of an individual. The culture and environment of an infant, child, or adolescent impacts their survival as an adult. Children’s health and education are extremely impacted from homelessness.

As having researched the depth and magnitude that as homelessness is rooted from poverty initially. Even though homelessness has been found to be a repetitive cycle among families and with all populations it is imperative to stop the cycle of homelessness and to stop the cycle of abandonment and rejection within infants, children, and adolescents who are without homes by providing safe and secure homes for them within communities.

Once again, homelessness has struck families of all socioeconomic status and abandonment and rejection has struck many. As a loss of a home from a change in economic status that is grieving to the spirit and soul of a man or woman so is the spirit of abandonment and rejection grieving to a soul of an infant, child, or adolescent in realizing the importance of the value of a home and not just in dollar value, but the value of providing a safe and secure home for homeless infants, children and adolescents from the life course perspective.