Essay On Foster Care

Firstly foster care is put in place for children whose parents are unable to cope or/and are unfit to look after their child. Foster care can help children but can also be very hard on there mental health, coming from an abusive family and being neglected and then being put in a family that tries to love the child could and in 67% of the time will cause the child to have some trust issues. Most of the time children will think about their past and it may bring back trauma and memorise of the past with the memorise it could set of the anxiety of the child and induce a panicked state and deep rooted trust issues.
Secondly foster care is hard on a child it makes them feel different and have a warped look on life this is because foster care is a taboo to say in modern society no one ever talks about it there’s no lessons on it but then being a foster child myself I have been looked down on, I have been made an outcast in society but I have never in all my life let that get me down. I have had a history on trust issues that make it hard …show more content…
Pasts can be hard to deal with but for a foster child they can get help. Foster care can be a blessing to some children being that they go to a loving family that will try and give them what they need for instance in my time I’ve moved a lot but I was with one family for 6 years and with these foster carers it was like I was part of the family I got to do stuff like go out on my bike on the weekends and go for meals with the family. With all say and done pasts are hard to overcome in a child’s head, social workers come see if you’re alright every 6 weeks and how your mental health is in the placement you’re in, on the other hand pasts could have no effect on a foster child because they have simplify try and forget about it and move on with their