Child Welfare Essay

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Every day, there is a child that needs any form of help due to some physical abuse and violence done by their parents or any guardians they are living with. Recognition of this should not be based on general analysis and needs careful and thorough examination. There are many variables when it comes to child welfare, such as race, gender, heritage, living conditions, and the list goes on. Child welfare workers must familiarize themselves with most if not all variables in order to give the proper assistance that the child will need. There is no cookie-cutter answer or any shortcuts in protecting and hiding these children from their abusers. No magic cloak exists for these children to hide instantly, most especially children belonging to the minority group.
Minorities in the welfare system
Byle (2019) noted that “Black children or children with one Black parent are over-represented in the care system” (p. 23). What is the reasoning behind this? This over-representation is not just in the United States; it is also true in Canada. Indigenous (Native Canadian) children as they are referred to in Canada are ten times more likely to end up in the welfare system than other children (Byle, 2019). Even though the two countries have vastly different child welfare systems, they do have something very similar in common a disproportionate representation of minority children in both countries. The child welfare system in Canada is established with cultural and socioeconomic biases. As a result, indigenous mothers are more likely to be in contact with the child welfare system. This involvement leads these Indigenous women to be more susceptible to violence, sexual exploitation, and addictions. As compared to non-Indigenous children, natives such as Metis, Inuit, and First Nations children have higher chances to end up in care. The child welfare system failed to protect these children belonging to these groups.
In the U.S., records show that African-American children mostly comprised the population of children who are under the child welfare in the year 1995. In the same year, the same population of children comprised the children who are under group care and foster care. About 40 per cent of children that have died as a result of neglect or abuse w...