Last year the American taxpayers spent twenty-two billion dollars on foster care programs (ABC News 1). It’s a slightly sizeable amount, but it is put to shame when compared to the 600 billion dollars spent on the US Military last year (National Priorities Project 1) . Regardless, I have a solution for this seemingly excessively unnecessary spending. Even Wade Horn, the highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up (ABC News 1). Why don’t we do just that? I propose that we release all the children from the prison that is the foster care system. I can see how there might be some concern for these very important contributors to society, but I assure you it is for their own good. How many times have people said that their generation is lazy? Well, they will be lazy no more. They will learn independence, survival, and other important skills that they would otherwise rely on hardworking taxpayers to provide for them like food and shelter. With
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Many children are placed in unsafe homes where their foster parents either physically, mentally, or sexualy abuse them or just completely ignore and neglect them. A recent inquiry into the Trenton, New Jersey foster care system found that up to one in five children were abused while in foster homes(Malka 1). Some might argue that it is character-strengthening abuse, but “Children who experience child abuse and neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit a violent crime” (Helping Hand 2). It is obvious that children are not safe in foster care, and just about anywhere would be safer for them, which is why we need to extract them from their horrid conditions. Most children would be overjoyed to be free of their abusers, so it would really be doing them a service by nullifying the
Many children are placed in unsafe homes where their foster parents either physically, mentally, or sexualy abuse them or just completely ignore and neglect them. A recent inquiry into the Trenton, New Jersey foster care system found that up to one in five children were abused while in foster homes(Malka 1). Some might argue that it is character-strengthening abuse, but “Children who experience child abuse and neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit a violent crime” (Helping Hand 2). It is obvious that children are not safe in foster care, and just about anywhere would be safer for them, which is why we need to extract them from their horrid conditions. Most children would be overjoyed to be free of their abusers, so it would really be doing them a service by nullifying the