How Foster Care Changed My Life
At the age of 10 I went through what not a lot of kids go through. I was in foster care which means I was a kid without a home or family. Growing up in foster care is not so easy, but I always knew someone, somewhere else had it worse than me. I always had to change my personality for foster parents to like me.
When you walk into a foster home most people think of Annie which is nothing like it is in real life. There isn't millionaire that comes and wants to take you in for a week then adopt you. Usually the homes you go in are really messy and the foster parents don't care what you do. But then there are those foster parents that are way too protective and have to know everything about you, where you're going, and will even call your friend's …show more content…
I always got told to age out of the system and never have a real family because no one would ever love me.
I never talked back to a adult I've always been scared because when I was little after my dad died, my mom got married to my step dad Doug. He was not the best person in the world, I would ask a simple question and he would get mad, then I would talk back and sometimes I would get a plate thrown at my head. Ever since then I've never talked back to anyone except my sister. And that's why me and my sister moved out and got placed in the foster care system. My second foster home the ladies that took care of us told my sister and I that they knew our parents. So we always felt like we were meant to be there after three years we found out from a foster care worker that we were not supposed to be in that home and they actually weren't foster parents or licensed. So after that incident we went to an actual foster home and she never actually cared what we did. For the 6 months that we were there all we were allowed to eat were ramen noodles and if we didn't want it we wouldn't
When you walk into a foster home most people think of Annie which is nothing like it is in real life. There isn't millionaire that comes and wants to take you in for a week then adopt you. Usually the homes you go in are really messy and the foster parents don't care what you do. But then there are those foster parents that are way too protective and have to know everything about you, where you're going, and will even call your friend's …show more content…
I always got told to age out of the system and never have a real family because no one would ever love me.
I never talked back to a adult I've always been scared because when I was little after my dad died, my mom got married to my step dad Doug. He was not the best person in the world, I would ask a simple question and he would get mad, then I would talk back and sometimes I would get a plate thrown at my head. Ever since then I've never talked back to anyone except my sister. And that's why me and my sister moved out and got placed in the foster care system. My second foster home the ladies that took care of us told my sister and I that they knew our parents. So we always felt like we were meant to be there after three years we found out from a foster care worker that we were not supposed to be in that home and they actually weren't foster parents or licensed. So after that incident we went to an actual foster home and she never actually cared what we did. For the 6 months that we were there all we were allowed to eat were ramen noodles and if we didn't want it we wouldn't