Identity: A Responsibility of Foster Parents and Agency to Negro Children in Long Term Foster Care: A Study of How and When Twenty Negro Foster Parents of Spence-Chapin Adoption Service Shared Background Information With Their Foster Child, New York, 1966

The central theme of this study is concerned with whether material that pertains to the foster child\u27s biological identity is being handled by the foster parents and how they feel about it. The author attempted to study how Negro foster parents who were boarding children for Spence-Chapin were helping the child establish a sense of self-identity. The writer also explored how much the caseworker and the Agency have been involved in this, and what the foster parents have expressed about the Agency involvement. The writer examined the three-fold problem of how Negro foster children establish biological identity as members of a family group, and racial and social identity in a white society. The writer recorded what the foster mothers expressed about the need for specialized group work to assist them in handling problems of identity from month to month and from year to year