Foster care has many success stories of kids coming from troubled households. Foster care allows for kids to get a second chance in a better household with structure. Jeannette Walls came from a very troubled household as she details in The Glass Castle. While Rose Mary and Rex Walls were able to make the kids happy, the kids needed to be placed in foster care for their own well-being.
Rose Mary and Rex Walls made the kids happy in how they treated them. As Jeannette recalled, “We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys” (Walls 41). The kids thought that their parents were smarter than other kids because they gave them something that would last forever. The …show more content…
“He got fired from his second and from his third,” Jeannette wrote after Rex lost job after job in Phoenix (Walls 110). Rex Walls was never able to keep a steady income for the family, causing them to be unable to care for the house. Since the family was unable to properly care for the house, they had to move to West Virginia to live with Rex’s parents. Because Rex was unable to provide a steady income for the family they needed Rose Mary to get a job. However, when she got a job Jeannette described, “In the morning she slept late and pretended to be sick” (Walls 74). Rose Mary would fake sick to avoid having to go to work just like a young child in school will fake sick to avoid going to school that day. Rose Mary was unwilling to work even though the family needed her to provide for them. Rose Mary and Rex Walls were unable to provide the family with a source of income, causing them to lack the basic necessities any child needs. Rose Mary and Rex Walls were able to give their kids joy, yet the kids lacked the ability to provide the kids with what they needed, therefore the children should have been placed in foster care. Jeannette Walls wrote her memoir The Glass Castle that talks about how she came from a rough family and became a successful writer. Had Jeannette and her siblings been placed in foster care they could have all been very successful. The foster care system does have its flaws, but it has many positives for troubled
Rose Mary and Rex Walls made the kids happy in how they treated them. As Jeannette recalled, “We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys” (Walls 41). The kids thought that their parents were smarter than other kids because they gave them something that would last forever. The …show more content…
“He got fired from his second and from his third,” Jeannette wrote after Rex lost job after job in Phoenix (Walls 110). Rex Walls was never able to keep a steady income for the family, causing them to be unable to care for the house. Since the family was unable to properly care for the house, they had to move to West Virginia to live with Rex’s parents. Because Rex was unable to provide a steady income for the family they needed Rose Mary to get a job. However, when she got a job Jeannette described, “In the morning she slept late and pretended to be sick” (Walls 74). Rose Mary would fake sick to avoid having to go to work just like a young child in school will fake sick to avoid going to school that day. Rose Mary was unwilling to work even though the family needed her to provide for them. Rose Mary and Rex Walls were unable to provide the family with a source of income, causing them to lack the basic necessities any child needs. Rose Mary and Rex Walls were able to give their kids joy, yet the kids lacked the ability to provide the kids with what they needed, therefore the children should have been placed in foster care. Jeannette Walls wrote her memoir The Glass Castle that talks about how she came from a rough family and became a successful writer. Had Jeannette and her siblings been placed in foster care they could have all been very successful. The foster care system does have its flaws, but it has many positives for troubled