Argumentative Essay On Safe Families

A helpless baby girl was born premature, a repercussion of the long term use of drugs her mother had struggled with all her life. Her mom was exhausted, without a home, and in no way prepared to take on the responsibility of a baby. As soon as the baby was old enough to live without her mother, Foster Care stepped in, and settled her into a temporary home. She remained there for two prolonged years where she was starved by her foster parents, who were under the impression she was overweight.
During these two years, her mother was working to make a better life for herself, in the hopes to gain back custody of her daughter. But even years after she sobered up, this tiresome mother had no luck in attaining her youngest daughter back into her …show more content…
Safe Families is a Christian organization that works through families of the church to provide safe and loving homes for children in need. Safe Families official website states that, “Safe Families for Children has offered sanctuary to thousands of children, minimizing the risk for abuse or neglect and giving parents the time and tools they need to help their families thrive. The ultimate goal is to strengthen and support parents so they can become Safe Families for their own children” (Who). Safe Families’ goal is not only to reunify the children with their families but to give the struggling parents a way to get back on their feet.
For anyone who has not personally experienced foster care or an abusive household, it may be questioned why the goal is to get the children back in their homes. As my family has been involved in Safe Families for about seven years now, it is a question that has puzzled us as well. Almost every single child we have taken in has expressed how they miss their parents or want to go home in someway or another. Although they love our family and receive attention they never get at home, they still desire to be with their family because every persons natural human inclination is to be