Compare And Contrast From Homelessness To The Blind Side And Beyond By Michael Oher

Michael Oher agonized that, “The ending of my story is unique, but the beginning of my story is, sadly, far too common.” The book I read was I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond by Michael Oher and Don Yaeger. This book talks about the struggles he went through from when he was little and some facts about the foster system. Statistics show that only one-third of all children eligible to be adopted in the foster care system will end up with parents or permanent legal guardians. Most of those kids that do get adopted are under the age of eight. Unfortunately after the child turns eight the chances start getting lower for them to get adopted and every birthday the chances get even lower. As a result, approximately twenty-five thousand kids age out of the system every year, even if they have not graduated high school yet nor have a place to live. …show more content…
The girls that are in foster care have a higher percentage to reproduce before the age of twenty-one than the girls in stable families. Furthermore, parents who have been in the foster care system have twice as high rate of having their children placed in the foster care system, or seeing their children become homeless, than parents who have not been in the foster care system. The statistics are showing that seventy percent of children that age out of the system at eighteen say they want to go to college and get an education, but only about ten percent of them get to enroll, and not even one percent of those children will graduate, Also, about half of the children that aged out of the system will be homeless within eighteen months. In addition, children that were taken to live in the system of foster care have a higher chance than people in the military that are just returning from battlefields to suffer from post-traumatic stress