Religious and Spritual Issues in Foster Care

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CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Check or fill in the appropriate answer to the following questions. First try to answer from your understanding of the material before referring back to the course. These questions address information specifically stated in the program.

1. You may take a child to your own place of worship if the child is under 9 years of age and the parents do not object.

2. You can require that the child attend church and you can prevent church attendance as a consequence or a punishment for a child’s behavior

3. Resource families have a right to express and practice their religious beliefs (or non-beliefs) even if they are different than that of a child or a child’s family.

4. Birth parents lose the right to choose the religious beliefs and practices (or non-religious beliefs and practices) once their child goes into the foster care system

5. Your family prays every day at mealtime and at bedtime. Can you include your foster child in that practice? Answer and explain your answer. (Remember to both answer yes or no and explain your answer for full credit.)

6. The birth parents of your foster child don’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas as part of their religion, but your family does. How would you handle that?

7. You want to invite your child’s birth parents to your church for a special service. Can you? (Remember to both answer yes or no and explain your answer for full credit.)

8. Resource families should not attempt to change a child’s religious tradition or faith.

9. It is appropriate that an adolescent has questions about spirituality, beliefs, religion, and morality and it is okay for foster parents to talk to youth about those questions.

10. Birth parents can demand that a foster family be the same religion as themselves.

11. Families have to hide their religious practices and promise not to talk about their religious beliefs if they become foster families..

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Religious and Spiritual Issues in Foster Care

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