Foster Care
Foster Care System: Salvation or Detriment
Imagine your family being broken up and scattered to a random location with a random group of people that you now must live and grow with. This decision is completely out of your control and very well may be the most important one of your life. This is what is known as the foster care system. This is detrimental to American society, because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.” “80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.”BRITTANY NUNN (2012), author of Statistics Suggest Bleak Futures for Children Who Grow up in the Foster Care system. These statistics depict that reoccurring cycle then develops trouble adults from innocent children and spits them out into the world as unproductive members of society. Not every child that is instituted into the system is going to be another failed attempt at giving a child a good life, in fact there are probably countless success stories that the foster care system has had, however the numbers do not adhere in a fair manner. Every kid should have the right and opportunity to live the life they want to. Most kids do not develop attached feelings to their families due to the non-biological relations. There are also some cases where the child may need more attention because of the harsh realities they have had to endure early on, yet in most cases they do not receive that and are starved of that , and look for other outlets, most of which are negative.
The foster care system is inadequate for the simple reason that these children and teenagers that are involved tend to fail much easier than that of a child with a full family. They do not have the right guidance and
Imagine your family being broken up and scattered to a random location with a random group of people that you now must live and grow with. This decision is completely out of your control and very well may be the most important one of your life. This is what is known as the foster care system. This is detrimental to American society, because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.” “80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.”BRITTANY NUNN (2012), author of Statistics Suggest Bleak Futures for Children Who Grow up in the Foster Care system. These statistics depict that reoccurring cycle then develops trouble adults from innocent children and spits them out into the world as unproductive members of society. Not every child that is instituted into the system is going to be another failed attempt at giving a child a good life, in fact there are probably countless success stories that the foster care system has had, however the numbers do not adhere in a fair manner. Every kid should have the right and opportunity to live the life they want to. Most kids do not develop attached feelings to their families due to the non-biological relations. There are also some cases where the child may need more attention because of the harsh realities they have had to endure early on, yet in most cases they do not receive that and are starved of that , and look for other outlets, most of which are negative.
The foster care system is inadequate for the simple reason that these children and teenagers that are involved tend to fail much easier than that of a child with a full family. They do not have the right guidance and