There is an average of 379,122 children living in the United States without any permanent families that are in foster care homes with families that abuse and neglect them (Thoma, 2005). There was a study conducted in Conjunction with a civil suit that found out that twenty one percent of children that get abused and neglected are in the care of foster homes. Also twenty five percent of children are abuse or inappropriate punishment. There are some cases where kids were in care of foster homes where they were physically abused, handcuffed, beaten, chained, tied up and kept in cages. Then there are other cases when kids were also over drugged with psychotropic medication for institutional convenience. Over 500 of an estimated 4,000 foster
