The article “Social Support and child protection: Lessons Learned and learning,” written by Thompson in 2015, speaks on social support intervention, which is something designed to prevent child abuse in neglect. While this seems like something extremely powerful and effective, the article mention that between 10 and 25% of families invited to these groups decline to participate. I would love to know the reason behind families declining what seems to only be something of benefit. It would be great if groups like this were mandatory. Maybe not for everyone but high-risk families and families that take in and care for foster children.
There are thousands of cases in which children are being abused and mistreated within the foster care system and groups and programs with similar missions could have a huge impact. A family member of mine was a foster parent for many years and the stories I would hear about child neglect and mistreatment are extremely unfortunate. I spoke with her about social intervention groups to get her opinion on them. She believes that they are very necessary and agrees that they should be mandatory. The closest thing to this is social workers coming to visit and check on children in the system. She mentioned that the visits are not as through as they could be and are often rushed. It is sad to hear and read about things like this because children deserve the best of what can be offered, and it is evident that this is not always the case.
According to “Preschool Children’s Peer Acceptance and Social Interactions” by Kristen M. Kemple, peer acceptance is “a measure of a child’s acceptance by group.” I agree with this and was very interested in the study by Howes, 1988. In his study, he speaks on the relationship between a child having friends and being accepted and how they are related. The article mentions how children who may be rejected” aren’t completely friendless. I can speak to this because in my experience growing up, I wasn’t the most popular and had a very small group of friends. I won’t go as far as saying I was rejected. However, I did not have a huge group of peers and did not really communicate with anyone outside of my small friend group. It is even more interesting because each of my friends were all very similar in how we grew up, how we interacted with others and a few more characteristics. I believe family interaction plays a huge role in peer acceptance because with this most children learn how to communicate and be expressive, which in turn allows them to feel comfortable doing so outside of their homes. I think it gives some children a certain level of confidence and openness.
I was on chat with Emma and she told me to put in the notes that I need 4 pages revised and for those to be charged separately. They are two separate papers and they will both be attached to this under attachments.