Foster care is correlated with a range of negative outcomes compared to the general population. Children in foster care have a high rate of ill health, particularly psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. One third of foster children in a US study reported abuse from a foster parent or other adult in the foster home. Nearly half of foster children in the US become homeless when they reach the age of 18, and the poverty rate is three times higher among foster care alumni than in the general population. By country
Australia
In Australia foster care was known as "boarding-out". Foster care had its early stages in South Australia in 1867 and stretched to the second half of the 19th century. It is said that the system was mostly run by women until the early 20th century. Then the control was centered in many state childrens departments. "Although boarding-out was also implemented by non-government[al] child rescue organizations, many large institutions remained. These institutions assumed an increasing importance from the late 1920s when the system went into decline." The system was re-energized in the postwar era, and in the 1970s. The system is still the main structure for "out-of-home care." The system took care of both local and foreign children. "The first adoption legislation was passed in Western Australia in 1896, but the remaining states did not act until the 1920s, introducing the beginnings of the closed adoption that reached it peak in the period 1940–1975.
Middle cerebral artery lesions mostly affect the dominant hemisphere i.e. the left cerebral hemisphere. Signs and Symptoms
Hemiparesis or hemiplegia of the lower half of the contralateral face
Hemiparesis or hemiplegia of the contralateral upper and lower extremities*
Sensory loss of the contralateral face, arm and leg*
Ataxia of contralateral extremities*
Speech impairments/aphasia: Brocas area, Wernickes or Global aphasia as a result of a dominant hemisphere lesion (usually the left brain)
Perceptual deficits: hemispatial neglect, anosognosia, apraxia, and spatial disorganization as a result of a non-dominant hemisphere lesion (usually the right brain)
Visual disorders: déviation conjuguée, a gaze preference towards the side of the lesion; contralateral homonymous hemianopsiaNote: *faciobrachial deficits greater than that of the lower limb

Diagnosis
Diagnosis can be confirmed by CT Scan or MRI for advanced investigations. References


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