Punishment in Immigrant Families
Luis Torres has not been able to see his children for a long time. They’ve been removed to foster care for six months. Now when they were allowed to come home, Mr. Torres was ordered to move out.
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Welfare or victimization?
Keeping foster kids with their parents can be difficult. Rules and regulations sometimes appear to be systematic oppression, here in the US and abroad.
Single Parents: Does Race Matter
All adoptive parents face different challenges raising their kids. Race, race relations and civil rights issues in transracial families can be a touchy issue, where the right answer isn’t always black or white.
New Legislation Could Bring Support
90% of all Kinship care in New York is based in New York City. Kinship care is a form of foster care where children are placed with relatives.
Sibling connection
Brothers and sisters separated in foster care are increasingly seeking to reestablish relationships with their siblings once they age out of the system.
Embracing sexual identity
LGBTQ teens in foster care deal with additional obstacles, such as discrimination, being sent to group homes, and more placements than their peers.
Getting Into Trouble
58 percent of young adults in foster care obtain a high school degree by the age of 19 compared to 87 percent of the general population. For Donte Johnson and Carrie Wright these numbers are a reality.
Left behind: teens and adoption
Teenagers in the child welfare system wait the longest to be adopted, due to a combination of barriers that limit permanency.
Battling the System and Yourself
Behind the smiles and the laughter in Erica Orr’s household lies a constant fear that some day soon her family will be no more.
Immigrant foster children
Special Immigration Juvenile Status (SIJS) allows immigrant children in foster care to apply for permanent residency but the system needs to be made more efficient so that no child is left behind.
Aging Out
About 26,000 young adults leave the foster care system each year. Because they have no family support or guidance, at least 12 percent of them become homeless.
Rooftop Honey
A profile of a rooftop honeybee keeper in East Village. By: Jialing Zhang
Parkour: Challenge Yourself
Parkour is a growing sport amongst New York’s youth. By: Leon Huang.