Foster Care Research Paper

How do we know that children survive better in foster care? Who chooses whether they belong in the child care system? These are a couple of the questions that many people ask when they think about foster care. Foster care started in the middle of the 19th century by a man named Charles Loring Brace. Brace would take children off the streets and place them in homes around the state. (Tyler and Melander) Once people realized that this was a good way to get kids off the street, then they started the foster care system. There are 250,000 children that enter the foster care system each year. Of those 250,000 roughly 20,000 are still yet to be adopted. (Faber) Children are placed in foster care for a vast amount of reasons: sexual abuse, …show more content…
Each foster care provider receives $400 a month for each of their foster children. This money is given to them to support the child and provide them with the necessities they need to survive. (Doyle) These providers do not only fulfill the child with a roof over their heads, clothes on their bodies, and food in their stomach, but also offer them love and compassion. They are supposed to fill in as the parents that the child could never have. Since a child starts off life having to depend on others the amount of trust they have is massive. When a parent does not provide for the child, then they will not trust anyone and become independent. Children who are in foster care do not trust others easily, and this causes a strain in the relationship between the foster parent and the child. Children often get depressed when placed in foster care because they do not know how to bond with their providers. Some children do not attach easily to their foster parents because they feel as though they are unworthy of love. …show more content…
The system tries to put children into a home where they will be loved and cared for. Social services do everything they can to provide kids with the best parents they can get, but every system is flawed. Many providers are just in it for the money or recognition, and this does not help out a child in any way. Foster care also prohibits children from succeeding in school and furthering their educations. While foster care is a great alternative for billions of homeless kids – maybe it is not the best solution we could come up with. Charles Loring Brace had a magnificent idea to help out kids across America and now it is time to make it even