The Carpenters Foster Care Summary

Blood, starvation and depression: would you want to experience these if you were a foster child? Imagine being slapped by your caretaker and getting dragged across a hardwood floor getting splinters just for making a small mistake as a kid.
During his horrific foster care experience, Jennings was put through quite a few abusive institutions and homes, such as living with a poor family named the Carpenters. Instead of looking for an experience raising a child, the Carpenters were just looking to make extra money by fostering Jennings. The Carpenters would constantly slap Jennings for doing something so minute, such as not wanting to eat the dreadful food they put in front of him. When Jennings knocked down one of Mrs. Carpenters’ precious china plates, she got so furious as to knock him down to the floor, drag him, and slap him. Doing this made Jennings stay under the dining room table for what felt like years to him, since it was so frightening. Fortunately, Jennings was sent away from the Carpenters to a better home shortly after this event. Jennings Michael Burch’s childhood experience is one of the many heartbreaking stories about children being sent to abusive
Sure, some may include major benefits to the foster children, but in the long run, the child isn’t benefitted. Just like the parent requirements, most government reforms have nothing to do with preventing abuse happening within the home. One reform made stated, “Foster children under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 for free school meals without the submission of a household school meal application.” This reform may help foster children have a healthy, free meal, but it won’t serve them justice. But, it isn’t entirely the government’s fault to not be preventing mistreatment of foster children. Instead, it’s the organizations who the foster child belongs