foster care home. Most children spend their whole lives in a foster home and some foster homes don’t have the right stuff for the kids to accommodate. Even though they don’t have the right requisites, the rare twist exists in where the former foster child doesn’t need any more requisites. This issue is hotly debated because critics think they need more necessities. Some argue that children don’t need the money for the foster home, but that families out there need it. Despite what some say, foster homes need the money, because it helps children to understand the position the children are in and will later realize how they don’t want to depend on anybody anymore and will want to make a change.
The foster care systems should be receiving more money to pay for basic needs. For example, the foster care system could allow the money to be given to the children for when they are ready to leave the foster care system. According to the article, “Foster teens ready to tell city council how to fix system,” the author had illustrated how former foster teens didn’t have the right resources for the future. It says, “...only 14 percent have the resources to support themselves…”(Dvorak, 2010). This demonstrates how only 14 percent of those who were in foster homes only have the right supplies to get out of the system. The amount of money usually doesn’t help with the idea of being in a foster home, but the idea of leaving the foster home offsets any consequential result. The outcome of the money can’t help those when they don’t really have the requirements for having an own life. When the kids don’t have the right necessities outside of the home, they won’t be able to think right. In the end, the foster home should give some of the money towards those adults that want to have their own life. Additionally, the state should give money to the foster care as a way for them to succeed in helping those in need. According to the article, “Improving Foster Care Programs, illustrates how the state overalls pays for what the foster home needs. It says, “...increased needs of foster children, the way DCF treats them, and the cost of maintaining foster children relative to the amount the state pays for their care,”(Spigel, 1998). This shows how the state helps those children while they are in the foster home. The state already helps, but what is we involve other people to help the money rise in great amounts? What if we help the state, in including people, to help money rise in order to help those who are ready to leave the foster home? Or what if we help those adults to find a job to raise money for themselves? Most people who end up out of the foster home and system, rely on the government for help. We can help that number decrease by giving money to the foster home to help increase the amount of independent former foster children. That way we can see foster homes rise in educating foster children and make former foster children independent. In conclusion, it is clear to see that the foster care systems should help those foster children who are ready to leave the foster home with money. Foster homes can also be upgraded by checking the background, so in the end, the foster kids won’t be able to go through abusive foster parents.
They wouldn’t experience trauma and neglect. In addition, the foster home parents shouldn’t be treating their foster children like abandoned animals. According to the article, “The Horror Stories These Former Foster Care Kids Have Sound Too Bad To Be True. But They're Not,” the victim, James, had told the author how his foster father did despicable things to James when he hung out with a kid of a different colored tone. The article reads, “...a racist foster father who saw him hanging out with a black friend, he beat James, drug him outside, clasped a dog collar around my neck, and cuffed his hand to a Confederate flag rail in front of the doghouse,” (Simon, 2014). This illustrates how a foster father was aggressive with James when he hung out with a friend that was different colored tone. His foster father dragged him outside and before he drug him outside, he beat him up. In words, that is physical abuse. Physical abuse isn’t accepted and the foster father should have known better than to beat James up just by the simple fact that he hung out with a black friend. Simon had written how he proceeded to put a dog collar around his neck. The foster father can’t treat human beings like animals and can’t be educating them like animals. She also wrote how he cuffed his hand on a confederate and told him vile words about James’ friend. The background check is obviously needed and they need to certificate the foster parents to see that they have been checked and aren’t related to any type of abuse in the past. Moreover, the foster home parents shouldn’t be surprised when their foster child comes out differently than the rest of the kids. The article, “The Horror Stories These Former Foster Care Kids Have Sound Too Bad To Be True. But They're Not,” also included a story that was about Marciella, who came out as a lesbian to her
foster mother. The article states, “One of my worst memories was coming out as a lesbian to my foster mom. ... When I was a high school senior, she said, 'I am not going to pay for a gay prom.' I took a job at a pizza place so I could save up and buy my own prom dress,” (Simon, 2014). This demonstrates how many people have to be questioned about what their personal preferences are, even if they need to ask the one question everyone thinks about daily. Marciella had told Simon how her foster mother discriminate about coming out as a lesbian. She had also said that the memory was one of her worst memories. This demonstrates how she had been traumatized by they way her foster mother had acted towards her coming out as a lesbian. This shows how foster parents have to be made sure to be 100% supportive of the decisions the foster child makes even if they aren’t theirs. In conclusion, foster parents should get background checks to make sure that they won’t traumatize foster children. Critics say that children shouldn’t be put with foster homes that don’t get paid well enough, but many say that the money could be spent better in other occasions. For instance, those foster parents who are in need, should get the money instead of the foster homes, who are well funded. According to the article,” Fixing Foster Care: Fostering stability,” the author illustrated how the foster parents are poor enough that they are recruiting to the foster system to give them money. It says, “Some foster parents are in it for the money – the basic monthly rate ranges from $423 to $575 per child,”(Turner, 2014). This shows how the foster parents are choosing to take care of the foster kids to get the money. They are in need of money and got to different alternatives, including the foster homes. Since the foster homes give great amounts of money by only taking care of a child per month by giving a great amount of money. In turn, the foster parents should be stable after taking care of foster children in three months. SInce the poverty situation is so dense, foster parents have to go to another alternative. Another example, the children are well funded and think the money could be spent on better stuff. “In a rare twist, the kids and advocates don't want more money. The programs for older foster kids are well-funded, they say. But they think the money can be spent better,”(Dvorak, 2010). This illustrates how former foster children are saying that the money doesn’t have to be wasted on a foster care home. The teenagers implicated that the foster care home doesn’t have to be upgraded with more money, but the money can be wasted in something better, and less dreary. The teenagers already lived their life as a former foster child and think the money is just going to be a waste if given to the foster home. In conclusion, the money shouldn’t be given to the foster homes, but to something better that can’t be lamentful and can be successful. Although disagreed, many disputes are based on the outcome of the foster homes. It also depends on the foster homes when they need the money. But the foster children will soon understand the position the children are in and will later realize how they don’t want to depend on anybody anymore and will want to make a change. Skeptics may say that the environment of a foster home is similar to a homeless on the street, but with the correct amount of money for both foster home and foster parent, the environment for the foster child shouldn’t be a significant difference. Even though children want more for their lives, they would soon find out the dreary situation they are in and would want to make a change. That change can be for the better, or for the worse. If helping foster homes is one thing, then helping foster parents is a whole different situation. We shouldn’t coward out in any situation, but instead make a difference. Foster children, like Jennings should be given an opportunity to life and should be heard. Foster parents shouldn’t seek out different alternatives for money and instead of going for listening to others, foster children and foster parents should be given the opportunity to be heard. Foster homes are completely different stories, but foster parents are in close range to the seldom chance of succeeding.