Foster Care Article

Orme John, Cheryl Buehler. "Foster Family Characteristics and Behavior and Emotional 

Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review." Family Relations. Vol. 50 No. 1. (2001)

Page 3-15.

The article is about the effects of foster care on children after they are adopted into a new family or return to the original family. It looks are all the different effects that could factor into the problems that arise from it. It also states the problems that do occur from foster care. The article is organized by first giving facts about foster care and telling what it is exactly also. It goes on to give real examples of foster care situations. It shows a graph of the results of a study done on foster care also. The graph shows who the study was done by, what the sample size is, and then what was looked at in the study. The article goes on to describe all the factors that could be looked at in the study, how they effect the child, and how each factor should be done. The purpose of the literature review in this article is to show how foster care effects children that are in it. It also can be used to show way of dealing with foster care so that all children turn how to be the best they can. I don't this this article violated a lot of critical thinking skills. If there is any critical thinking skills that are violated it would be avoiding emotional reasoning. Foster care is a touchy subject and a lot people have opinions on the topic. All of the opinions are based upon emotional situations rather than facts. In this article it does a fairly good job of using facts based upon the studies that were done. Overall this was a pretty good article in the way it was set up and for the use of critical thinking.