Children enter foster care at a very young age, which for some could bring positive results improving lives of the children. ... Maltreatment, poverty and foster care all have effects on a child's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. ... School can also be a place where they feel safe and secure, especially if they have a great relationship with a teacher. ... Physical and psychiatric is said to occur in children that had enter the foster care system, they have higher risks of depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as adults (Mason, 2011, p. 1). ... The foster ca...

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