Pros And Cons Of The Foster Care System

Over the last twenty-five years the foster care system in America has been overwhelmed with multiple issues leading to a broke system. According to an article from ABC News, over 800,000 children every year come in contact with a foster care system. The numbers keep going up year after year and nothing seems to work. Many kids never leave the foster care system. Many kids come and go into the system. Foster care in America has become a more prominent issue today due to the cocaine outbreak in the 90’s, rise in poverty in the lower class, and lack of support from social workers and foster parents. Brittany Clark from Children’s Rights Blog recalls her experience she had with foster care. She was placed in a foster home with five brothers at the age of seven. During her five year tenure at this particular foster home she was abused sexually and physically numerous times. Her social worker was the only person who she told about the abuse. Her foster parents even made her stay with other family members just so that her parents could continue to get paid. For the next seven years she bounced around from various homes and state organizations. She explains that many of her new foster parents never had foster kids or children, let alone one who had been sexually, emotionally, and physically …show more content…
They feel that better screening techniques should be placed while picking out foster parents. Placing more restrictions and making it more difficult to adopt would allow only the best of families to adopt, therefore insuring these kids are in safe hands. But this would cause the number of kids being adopted to decrease. The kids who are adopted will have a better foster care experience but with making it harder to adopt less families would be willing to go through this process. Clearly, this is not the correct