Document Type
Focus Area Four
Abstract
Families in our society have become increasingly mobile due partly to the refinement and availability of modern transportation. Many families relocate to maintain employment or to secure affordable housing. At least one in five families moves each year (Kuczen, 1982). This frequency of movement contributes to the decline in a family's sense of community and often results in isolation from family, friends, and other valuable support systems.
Sometimes when a family experiences severe difficulties, children must be removed temporarily from their parents. These children are usually placed in foster care. When a child enters foster care, the child not only must adjust to a different family but often to a different school and different friends as well. The trauma related to such moves places a child at risk of emotional and developmental problems.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
2
Issue
1
First Page
105
Last Page
107
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1991 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Perrish, Charlcie
(1991)
"Focus Area Four: Providing Continuity of Service for Highly Mobile Children and Families [Perrish],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 25.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol2/iss1/25
