Sixteen year old Nicole said, “The thing that makes me scared is when I feel like somebody says they love me and stuff, but I’m thinking no, love is like when they’re gonna throw me to the side again. Just- they don’t want me anymore.”
There are foster parents that are just “babysitting” for the money. In the video the teens repeated their hatred for foster care. Many teens rather be with their biological parents. Some foster parents abuse the kids in many different ways and never get caught.
Statistics prove that nearly half of all foster care children have chronic medical problems. Estimated half of the children 5 years and younger have developmental delays. The saddest stat I found was the fact that up to 80% of all children who experience foster care have serious emotional problems. Want to know what’s heartbreaking? About 16% of children in foster care in the year 2011 were there for 3 or more years before finally being emancipated. This is an effect of being in a foster care program and separated from their parents.
Could you imagine changing everything you've ever learned to start a new life? Foster care gives children a family and a home, but they are being effected emotionally and socially. Foster care hurts the