Deborah Kaliisa
AP Seminar
3rd Hour
Mrs.Hort
ECONOMICS OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN
Introduction
Children in the system are not provided with the resources to become economically stable because when leaving foster care they rarely attend college and when they do a lack of support leads to higher dropout percentages, without a college degree foster children are very likely to be unemployed and unemployment increases the level of difficulty for them to provide themselves with sources. This has to do with the benefits that children in foster care have a hard time obtaining such as, because when they leave the system they are not provided with the money or resources that need to succeed in everyday life …show more content…
When they are not adopted children are not provided with the benefits they need to succeed outside of the system. To provide the children who age out with those benefits outside of the foster system in the foster system they need to be prepared with information to get them ready for the world outside of them. The foster system is broken because they look children in the eyes every day and tell them their worst fear that they are too old to adopt and this is a lie because every day there are statistics on adult adoption. With that Idea in mind the question why children are told they are too old to be adopted? comes up. The children in foster care have a high risk of having health issues and them being told repeatedly that they are too old to be adopted can have a long lasting effect. Foster carers do this a lot then the system wonders why the percentage of foster kids having PTSD increases as the years go by. Orphan Statistics | Skyward Journey found that fourteen million five hundred five thousand children grow up as orphans and age out of the system every year and that sixty percent of the females who age out become prostitutes and seventy percent of the young men aging out became hardened criminals. To reduce the statistics of these young men and woman not succeeding in life is to teach them the basic skills they need to succeed in the world while they are still in the system so that if they are not adopted before they age out then they have the basic skills they need to acquire a job and a stable living space. Places like Covenant House take children in every day that have been abused, neglected and homeless and provide them with shelter past the age of 18. The children taken into Covenant House an organization that pulls foster children of any age from bad situations are provided with the information they need to go
AP Seminar
3rd Hour
Mrs.Hort
ECONOMICS OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN
Introduction
Children in the system are not provided with the resources to become economically stable because when leaving foster care they rarely attend college and when they do a lack of support leads to higher dropout percentages, without a college degree foster children are very likely to be unemployed and unemployment increases the level of difficulty for them to provide themselves with sources. This has to do with the benefits that children in foster care have a hard time obtaining such as, because when they leave the system they are not provided with the money or resources that need to succeed in everyday life …show more content…
When they are not adopted children are not provided with the benefits they need to succeed outside of the system. To provide the children who age out with those benefits outside of the foster system in the foster system they need to be prepared with information to get them ready for the world outside of them. The foster system is broken because they look children in the eyes every day and tell them their worst fear that they are too old to adopt and this is a lie because every day there are statistics on adult adoption. With that Idea in mind the question why children are told they are too old to be adopted? comes up. The children in foster care have a high risk of having health issues and them being told repeatedly that they are too old to be adopted can have a long lasting effect. Foster carers do this a lot then the system wonders why the percentage of foster kids having PTSD increases as the years go by. Orphan Statistics | Skyward Journey found that fourteen million five hundred five thousand children grow up as orphans and age out of the system every year and that sixty percent of the females who age out become prostitutes and seventy percent of the young men aging out became hardened criminals. To reduce the statistics of these young men and woman not succeeding in life is to teach them the basic skills they need to succeed in the world while they are still in the system so that if they are not adopted before they age out then they have the basic skills they need to acquire a job and a stable living space. Places like Covenant House take children in every day that have been abused, neglected and homeless and provide them with shelter past the age of 18. The children taken into Covenant House an organization that pulls foster children of any age from bad situations are provided with the information they need to go