This has happened since 1636 that is over 300 years ago. There are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States that are suffering with no one to care about them no one to share their accomplishments there first word or steps with their first day of school or graduation with… they have no one. These people have been around For a long time and some of them have bad feelings about themselves and who they are. All these children want is love just like everyone else. Sometimes people get bullied because of this. They make these kids feel like they were mistaken or that someone didn't want them or care about them and that can lead to depression or can …show more content…
In 1919, the Children's agencies published “Minimum Standards of Child Welfare”, which confirmed the importance of keeping children in their own homes whenever possible and, when that was impossible, providing a "home life" with foster families. In 1923, the Children's agencies published “Foster-Home Care for Dependent Children”, an acceptance of the growing option for foster care over corporate care. During World War II, more than 8,000 children had to leave Europe and go to the United States, the Children's agencies commanded their temporary placement in U.S. foster homes. The Children's agency published a draft list of "The Rights of Foster Parents" in the May 1970 issue of its journal Children. That same year, the Children's agency sponsored the National Conference of Foster Parents. In 1972, the Children's agencies sponsored- National Action for Foster Children Week to raise awareness of the needs of foster kids and find more foster parents. 1988, President Reagan issued the first presidential proclamation that established May as National Foster Care Month”. This shows the events that happened that made people publish books which made president Reagan make a national foster care …show more content…
When foster parents still cared for their foster kids and the kids run away, then that means that something is wrong. The kids think and see things that most of us are not able to see. So they wanted to look into it more and they found out that studies show foster cause health problems, homelessness, early pregnancy, and arrest. In the U.S. every 45 seconds a kid is being abused or neglected in 2012 there were 3.3 million reports of child abuse and child welfare reported more than 500,000 cases of abuse. This info explains that there was a lot of kids that have been abused or they ran away from home while they were in