Persuasive Essay On A Foster Home

Have you ever thought about what life might be like if you didn’t have a family, a place you call home or even knowing who your birth parents are? Well, that is how foster kids have to live every day of their lives. Foster kids do not know if they will ever have a family to love. They don’t have a place they can go to feel safe and call home. They don’t even have a mother and father to guide them through life’s difficulties. Jude in, The Fosters, has troubles with his sexuality and discovering who he is. Since he didn’t have the love and support growing up, this was a big challenge he had to overcome growing up. Along the way of discovering who he was, he hit a few rough patches. Foster children are underprivileged and lack the support that they …show more content…
The idea didn't even enter my mind--why would anyone want to adopt three teenagers”(Rhodes). While living in a foster home, the foster kids never know how long they will be in that specific home. The kids wake up every day not knowing if they are going to have to pack up their belongings and move across the state, or even across the country. “Tala didn't know what a real family was until she found a forever home when she turned 13” (Rhodes). Most of the kids who are in foster care do not know what it feels like to be in a family who cares about them. The foster kids have to deal with not knowing if or when the day will come when they finally meet the family who will adopt them. Unfortunately, for some of the foster kids, the day they meet their family will never come. “More than 27,000 teens ‘age out’ of the foster care system every year” (Rhodes). When the kids who don’t get adopted turn 18, they are forced out of the foster home and forced to start a life on their own. Luckily, in Jude’s case, this was not the case. Jude was fortuitous enough to find a foster family that was more than happy to take him as their