The neglect system or foster care?
There is a need for strict enforcement, and improvement for the foster care system. It is proven fact that those who grew up in the foster care system have less of a chance living a successful life, due to neglect in the system. Children are constantly being moved from house to house; living with people who pretend to care for the kids, but really care more for the money and benefits given to them by the government. Time after time foster children are given the false hope of finding a loving home, as a society it’s time these kids are given permanent hope, as well as a permanent family.
Statistics show that children who grew up in the foster system have less of a chance to succeed in life, due to the lack …show more content…
Compared to children who have lived under a permanent home, and an abundance of love from their mom and or dad. Only 3% of the children who have grew up in foster care will graduate from college while the rest of the children, obtain only a high-school degree or less, if given the chance to acquire an education. Unfortunately, when kids only have a high school level education it affects the chance of the not only foster kids but anyone with less of an education from being hired; due to lack to education and experience needed for high quality jobs in major corporations. Since the kids in the foster care are never truly exposed to to college or valuable education, by age 26, approximately 80% of those who turned 18 and aged out of foster care earned at least a high school degree, or a GED compared to 94% …show more content…
To those children lucky enough, will move foster kids from home to home at least 7 times, on average. While in foster care (that is if people actually open up their home). (Why are they always moving from house to house). In just the U.S 400,000 children are living without a permanent families. (why is this so when - majority of the kids are eligible to be adopted but only 32% do get adopted. (How do we ensure that these kids become eligible for permanent adoption - look this up). Nearly 30,000 and 25% of the children waiting to be adopted, turn 18 and leave the system without families, leaving them
There is a need for strict enforcement, and improvement for the foster care system. It is proven fact that those who grew up in the foster care system have less of a chance living a successful life, due to neglect in the system. Children are constantly being moved from house to house; living with people who pretend to care for the kids, but really care more for the money and benefits given to them by the government. Time after time foster children are given the false hope of finding a loving home, as a society it’s time these kids are given permanent hope, as well as a permanent family.
Statistics show that children who grew up in the foster system have less of a chance to succeed in life, due to the lack …show more content…
Compared to children who have lived under a permanent home, and an abundance of love from their mom and or dad. Only 3% of the children who have grew up in foster care will graduate from college while the rest of the children, obtain only a high-school degree or less, if given the chance to acquire an education. Unfortunately, when kids only have a high school level education it affects the chance of the not only foster kids but anyone with less of an education from being hired; due to lack to education and experience needed for high quality jobs in major corporations. Since the kids in the foster care are never truly exposed to to college or valuable education, by age 26, approximately 80% of those who turned 18 and aged out of foster care earned at least a high school degree, or a GED compared to 94% …show more content…
To those children lucky enough, will move foster kids from home to home at least 7 times, on average. While in foster care (that is if people actually open up their home). (Why are they always moving from house to house). In just the U.S 400,000 children are living without a permanent families. (why is this so when - majority of the kids are eligible to be adopted but only 32% do get adopted. (How do we ensure that these kids become eligible for permanent adoption - look this up). Nearly 30,000 and 25% of the children waiting to be adopted, turn 18 and leave the system without families, leaving them