Argumentative Essay On Foster Home

Is foster care the best system to be using for the children involved? Since 1995 the amount of abuse and neglect related to foster care homes has tripled (Curtis 8). The fact that the abuse rate is so high means that this system should be improved so the children can feel more comfortable. Foster children have described their experiences as traumatizing and “the worst way to raise a child,” with description like that it is a wonder that we as a nation would allow them to continue experiencing these awful circumstances without intervening (Krebs 13). The reason we let this pass under the radar so quietly is because we cannot come up with a better way of handling the amount of children and variety of ages passing through the system. Even though this system is better than having foster children stay in state housing until they age out, the foster care system should
Being foster parents is known as being “stand-in” parents, the children are thought to not have all the love that most children have in life (Unrau 1260). Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, “nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes, group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes” (Curtis 3). Foster placements are monitored until the birth family can provide appropriate care or the rights of the birth parents are terminated and the child is adopted (Unrau 1260). Most children in foster care have no say in their placements and therefore can be placed and moved to different placements as many times as the state chooses. Simone de Beauvior believes that “the child’s situation is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish, which has been fashioned without him, and which appears to him as an absolute to which he can only submit” (69). This explains why so many foster parents are able to abuse and neglect