A Life in the System: Foster Care

"Half of her life is spent on a crib and the other half abusers." When she became a foster parent, she could barely walk and was chewed by an older cousin My teeth changed due to tooth decay. " It turned black and her hair was bald out where the frightened man grasped the head sank in the toilet. "Patty Jones, author of" Plan for beneficiaries of abused children "announced at the Seattle Times. Foster parents can help many children escape from harsh environments, but that system still needs a lot of work.

Today, in the United States, 1/2 children are foster parents ("foster parents statistics"). Every year thousands of children enter or leave the foster care system. Some of them are adopted. Foster care system was originally designed to free children from an overcrowded or under-funded orphanage. It turned into a child who later helped abuse family members, die or ignore them.

Without parents taking care of them, they will ultimately enter the foster care system. What is a foster parent? Regardless of good, evil, or neutral, foster care has several different perspectives Many people's opinions may not be based on the most accurate story related to the system. According to the website of the National adoption center, "... foster care system allows adults to take care of children and children, and its foster care service is an institution that accepts over 250,000 children each year.A lot of children The number of problems of participating in this system and finding suitable caregivers for children is increasing very much These problems may have a lot of impact on children Yes, There are multiple solutions, because everyone can solve it, everyone's position is improved.

"Fostering families is a complex field, children in this system are feeding both relatives and a large family group that takes care of children outside the child welfare system.The government is in the family group We have participated in various ways for a long time, for example, because we only pay the funds of AFDC to children, the children live with relatives rather than foster care systems, It is a good example of how difficult it is to balance child welfare, child protection and family protection.