Reviewing Foster Care

The bibliographic information on the Foster Care article includes the following:


Foster Family Characteristics and Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review Author(s): John G. Orme and Cheryl Buehler Source: Family Relations, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 3-15 Published by: National Council on Family Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/585768 Accessed: 01/03/2009 14:08

This is a really great article which includes a lot of supportive details toward their main points. I believe their main points for this article is to explain to the readers what foster children go through and how they got to where they are, how foster families really give these children a stable environment to live in, and also why foster children behave the way they do. This article give great support to all of these main points by using a creative table which shows the studies of foster families. They also go on to give very supportive details dealing with how certain types of parenting effects these children in both positive and negative ways.

In my opinion, this article violates a critical thinking rule. The rule of which I believe is violated is emotional reasoning. Obviously the authors of this article feel very strongly about this topic and it seems as if they put a lot of emotion into they're reasoning.

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