Lucretius explained the fear of children when approaching unknown scenarios. This is how it must feel for a child that has to enter an unknown system with multiple flaws.
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true (Lucretius quoted in Bartlett’s F.Q. 113).
This quote is saying that everyone is afraid of the worst, and we sit and wait for the worst to happen. Speaking from personal experience, “In truth, it’s just an enormous waiting game”, never knowing when you are being moved to the next home, or how terrible the next round of abuse would end up. Does the foster system save, …show more content…
By reason of which, when turning 18, being kicked out on one’s own without resources to push success. By the age of 24, only 6 percent of foster children have two or four year degrees. Children are leaving the foster system with no idea how to proceed on their own. Foster families have only taken them in for the money, and also, children are bounced around from home-to-home, which takes away stability needed to feel confident enough to carry on a worthy life. Children need a place to turn to when times become rough, and foster children no longer have the luxury of receiving such fortitudes. Par Fessler states that it is difficult enough to move out into the real world, especially more so without the needed support and resources. A little more than two-thirds of females end up conceiving children. About 60 percent of males in foster care are convicted of …show more content…
However, the system that was created to help with the abuse has failed. Considering, the children that are supposed to be being saved are still being abused in the system. The sexual abuse system in California, which became a private organization instead of a state organization, is actually now considered more dangerous. This is caused by the fact that the system allowed convicted criminals to become foster parents, and in many cases, parents perceive it as a way to earn a living. Johns Hopkins University states that sexual abuse is four times as much in the foster system then in the general public. Hopkins explains that this is for the reason that sexually abused children are swayed to be placed with families that have less contact with social
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true (Lucretius quoted in Bartlett’s F.Q. 113).
This quote is saying that everyone is afraid of the worst, and we sit and wait for the worst to happen. Speaking from personal experience, “In truth, it’s just an enormous waiting game”, never knowing when you are being moved to the next home, or how terrible the next round of abuse would end up. Does the foster system save, …show more content…
By reason of which, when turning 18, being kicked out on one’s own without resources to push success. By the age of 24, only 6 percent of foster children have two or four year degrees. Children are leaving the foster system with no idea how to proceed on their own. Foster families have only taken them in for the money, and also, children are bounced around from home-to-home, which takes away stability needed to feel confident enough to carry on a worthy life. Children need a place to turn to when times become rough, and foster children no longer have the luxury of receiving such fortitudes. Par Fessler states that it is difficult enough to move out into the real world, especially more so without the needed support and resources. A little more than two-thirds of females end up conceiving children. About 60 percent of males in foster care are convicted of …show more content…
However, the system that was created to help with the abuse has failed. Considering, the children that are supposed to be being saved are still being abused in the system. The sexual abuse system in California, which became a private organization instead of a state organization, is actually now considered more dangerous. This is caused by the fact that the system allowed convicted criminals to become foster parents, and in many cases, parents perceive it as a way to earn a living. Johns Hopkins University states that sexual abuse is four times as much in the foster system then in the general public. Hopkins explains that this is for the reason that sexually abused children are swayed to be placed with families that have less contact with social