Racial Disparity in Foster Care, Adoption and Child Protective Services
Hi, I’m a year 12 student currently studying society and culture for my HSC course. Within this course I am required to conduct a Personal Interest Project (PIP) which is my major project. My specific topic is based on racial disparity in foster care, adoption and child protection services (this includes: investigation, in out-of-home care and/or care and protection order), primarily determining if Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children in Australia are more at risk of being placed into these services, etc. This survey is completely anonymous and if you don’t feel comfortable answering any of the questions they can be skipped. Thank you so much for your participation.  

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1.) What is your Gender?
2.) How old are you?
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3.) Which country do you live in?
4.) Do you identify as?
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5.) Are you a:
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6.) Which residential area do you live in?
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7.) Have you or anyone you know been within the foster system, child protection services and/or adoption services?
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8.) Would you ever:
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Please explain why/why not for the above question:
9.) At what age do you believe most children are placed into the foster care system?
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Please explain why/ why not for the above question:
10.) Do you believe that the age you put in question 10 differs between ethnicities (e.g. Pacific Islanders, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander)? Please explain:
11.) In your opinion please explain why people either become foster parents or adoptive parents:
12.) “A significant number of children and young people remain in care until they are 18; they "age out of care" when they become adults at age 18." In your opinion should foster children over the age of 18 still be under the care of a guardian while completing year 12, an apprenticeship, etc. or no longer be the responsibility of their previous carer even if for example they are in the middle of their HSC year?
13.) What do you think are the main reasons for a child to be placed into foster care/ adoption/ child protection? (E.g. neglect, lack of a caregiver, drug abuse, physical or psychological abuse, death of guardian, etc.) Why?
14.) Do you believe these reasons differ between cultures/ethnicity?
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15.) Which do you believe is more accurate?
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16.) Do you believe there is a higher proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in/who’ve experienced child protection in terms of being removed from the home, placed into foster care and/or adoption services?
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Please explain why/ why not for the above question:
17.) To what extent do you believe that the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their culture and heritage through child services and/or adopting into non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households impacts their identity and childhood development?
18.) To which extent, do you believe that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children placed under foster, adoptive or protective care should still have a close connection to their culture and heritage? (5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest)
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Why?
19.) In your opinion do you believe that the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children could potentially lead to another stolen generation (when the Aboriginal people in Australia were forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions)?
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Please explain why/ why not for the above question:
20.) Do you believe that Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students who are sent to study away from their communities may feel alienated from their culture when they return? Please explain why/why not?
21.) Is there anything else you would like to comment on?
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