Homework can add an additional negative consequence to the life of a
foster child.
If a
foster child is hoarding food or running away, Sparks said that child's guardian should be looking at ways to address the underlying trauma causing those behaviors.
The major theme of these three cases is that the out-of-pocket expenditures may benefit both the
foster child and the charitable organization, and, therefore, are not charitible deductions.
Foster parents said that teaching was often done with a caseworker who had not spent any period of time with the
foster child.
In one section of the IRS code, for instance, a
foster child (who can be claimed as a dependent) is described as one "who is in your care [and whom] you care for as your own child.
Other board members, advocates and lawyers say they suspect few are as troubled as Jennifer, a DCFS ward charged with stabbing to death another
foster child in March 2002.
In a 2004 report titled "Forgotten Children" that highlighted the overuse of psychotropic medication by foster children in Texas, then-state Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn wrote of a
foster child who was prescribed 11 medications in one month, including two antidepressants and two stimulants to treat ADHD, at a cost of $1,088 to the state's Medicaid program.
Agreement in foster care: discrepancies between
foster child and foster parent about the severity of problem behaviour'
They have adopted four others from the foster care system, and they have another
foster child they assume they'll adopt eventually.
