In the fiscal year of 2006, over 5,049 children ran away from their foster families due to the parents inability to cater to the child’s need or due to an abusive foster family. The government should fund background checks for couples who want to foster children to decrease traumatic experiences while in foster care.
However, no one would deny there are cases where children must be separated from their parent in order to protect them from serious abuse. An Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate of sexual abuse in foster homes than in general population (Williams 2). Most people think that a child is automatically safe once he or she is removed from a neglectful or abusive parent, but that is not always the case. Researchers have found that children in foster care are twice as likely to be abused there as children living at home (Josep 1). Living with an abusive parent is traumatic, so the issue of being placed in an abusive foster home can be just as damaging to a child’s well-being. …show more content…
This theory helps those involved in the system sleep good at night and feel like a hero. In 2007 Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT, published a study which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002 (Moore 3). This study shows that 74% of incarcerated inmates have been in foster care and 80% of those kids are on death row. People who did not have good foster homes are more likely to turn to drugs and violence and end up in jail. Foster homes are not always as loving as we think they
However, no one would deny there are cases where children must be separated from their parent in order to protect them from serious abuse. An Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate of sexual abuse in foster homes than in general population (Williams 2). Most people think that a child is automatically safe once he or she is removed from a neglectful or abusive parent, but that is not always the case. Researchers have found that children in foster care are twice as likely to be abused there as children living at home (Josep 1). Living with an abusive parent is traumatic, so the issue of being placed in an abusive foster home can be just as damaging to a child’s well-being. …show more content…
This theory helps those involved in the system sleep good at night and feel like a hero. In 2007 Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT, published a study which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002 (Moore 3). This study shows that 74% of incarcerated inmates have been in foster care and 80% of those kids are on death row. People who did not have good foster homes are more likely to turn to drugs and violence and end up in jail. Foster homes are not always as loving as we think they