Globalization is the process where people, companies, and government integrate and interact across the world. Recently the rate of globalization has increased due to the advancement in communication technologies and transport affecting population and children in foster care (Sparke 240). Notably, the increased movement of people from one location to another has resulted to increase of population in some nations such as the United States. Additionally, globalization has resulted to increase in available resources and the social relation among people increasing the size of a population. However, the rise in population has caused social change by altering cultural values and norms consequently affecting children in foster care.
Nonetheless, the increase in population has caused exhaustion of the basic resources increasing the number of children abandoned. However, most governments have started the initiative of protecting and helping street children which focus on children in ‘out-home care’ and foster care. Therefore, even though globalization promotes the movement of people and goods from one place to another, it has resulted in an increase in children in foster care.
Notably, recent research about the impact of globalization on children provides strategies such as large-scale social status that help in understanding the social practices that result to increase in children in foster care. Additionally, Jansson in his book claims that the social welfare policy is the main way of reducing children in foster care by teaching students what to do with the system and giving them the necessary strategies for practicing the policy well. This helps to implement policy reform during their career and develop skills for social change.
References
Jansson, B.S. (2013). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice, 7th
ed. Boston: Cengage.
Sparke, M. (2013). Introducing Globalization: Ties, tension, and uneven integration. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
