Topic: Latino youth in the foster care system
Research question: How do the relationships that primarily lead low-income Latino youth into foster care systems initiate.
• I used the word relationships because I’m not talking about a relationship between a father and a son or a father daughter relationship. I’m addressing the relationships between the families as a whole.
• I used the word primarily because I will be looking into the top three reasons why youth get sent into foster care systems.
How you will investigate it: I will investigate it by doing qualitative, longitudinal study and in-depth interviews.
• By doing longitudinal study it will give me the access of having communication with the foster children and parents for a longer
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• I’m using family relationships to describe the relationship or interaction between the families because I haven’t visited the literature on it too much therefore I’m not completely sure if there is another word that I could use to explain that I’m talking about the relationships between the families.
• In my research question I state primary leads because I’m looking for the top three reasons why children get sent to foster homes. I will obtain this information by visiting the literature to know what others have found to be the top three primary leads/reasons why youth get sent into foster homes.
Why it matters:
• It matters because I want to make a change in the foster care system. I don’t want people to create more foster homes but I want to target the root cause of the problem. For instance, is someone lost their job and their way of coping with it was drinking because they knew they are going to have a hard time finding a job because they don’t have the proper documentation because this family possibly migrated to the United States. I want to create resources for families like these who have lost their jobs. If we find a solution to this problem we could avoid the father turning into an alcoholic over a period of time leading to eventually getting his family taken away because violence is stating to occur because he is under the influence most of the time. My goal is for the children to spend the as little