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Please read each question and record the response that most closely relates to your opinion:
Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
Youth in foster care are troubled.
Youth in foster care are aggressive.
Youth in foster care are capable of assimilating into healthy family relationships.
Youth in foster care have little hope of a positive future. They will likely end up in jail.
Youth in foster care are not loved by their biological parents.
 
 
Record your response as to whether the statement is true or false:
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Children are placed in foster care mostly because they were neglected by their parents.
The foster care system has a higher number of children from minority groups than white children.
The average foster child experiences at least three different foster placements before leaving the system.
The majority of children who are removed from home are placed with relatives.
Most children stay in foster care from six to twelve months.
Foster parents are paid a salary for caring for foster children in addition to the money they receive to cover the children's daily needs.
Foster parents can sometimes adopt a child after serving as temporary caregivers.
There is training required in order to be a foster parent.
Most children enter the foster care system because they experience physical or sexual abuse.
Most children leave foster care because they turn 18 and can be considered legally independent.
The foster care system is governed only by federal laws and states do not have any control over its rules and regulations.
Children in foster care are sometimes placed in group homes rather than with families.
Almost a quarter of foster children become homeless after they turn 18.
Fifty percent of children in the foster care system are 5 years of age or younger.
Children from minority groups remain in foster care longer than white children.
 
 
 
Sex:
 
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How old are you?
   
 
 
Have you ever been a foster child?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Have you ever lived in a family with foster children?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Has any member of your family been involved in the foster care system?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Have you ever had a friend or acquaintance who worked in the foster care system?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Have you ever had a friend or acquaintance who was or is currently in the foster care system?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Have you ever known youth in the foster care system?
 
Yes
 
No
 
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