Foster Care Bryan Price

For years, children have been promised refuge from abuse and neglect in their own homes. However, without the state/county agencies being held accountable by no one, foster care remains as just as bad as many of the homes from which the children were removed from in the first place. Foster cares are not as promising as they make themselves look. If you were to look into the system a little deeper you will see that they are full with their own problems loop holes and cover ups.
One of the core issues that the foster care system holds right now is that they continue to fail the 500,000 plus children assigned to it. Once the children hit 18 they “age out” of the foster care system. What the foster care system fails to do is teach those 20,00 children that “age out” how to be a productive well successful adult. It’s like right when they hit 18 they expect you to be an adult with no guide what so ever. Its one thing to go from home to home making and breaking off ties with different adults as they move. But its another thing to be sad homeless and lonely, which is what happens to at least 50% of the kids that come out of foster care.
Only half of foster youth will graduate from high school. Fewer than 10 percent of foster youth enroll in college and only 2 percent actually graduate. Many foster children go through many different homes and can attend up to five different schools. We cant build schools for them because they need guidance and support of parents to even ensure that they go to school, and even graduate.
More than 25% of kids in the foster care system today will become incarcerated within 2 years after they become emancipated and leave the system. We can’t build prisons, or jails because it won’t help them they would just get over crowded. They government says that we must invest in critical infrastructure. Which basically means that whatever foster care system whose infrastructure is a disgrace we have to invest in fixing it and in the kids lives who depend on it.
We need to focus on fixing the federal-funding structure to help pay for programs such as substance-abuse treatment, counseling, training, housing, and employment issues that can keep families from falling apart. These changes are ones that we need and should not have to consider funding because it’s commonsense that this is what the children in the foster care system need.
They system could also improve by getting involved on a more personal level with its children. Become a mentor or a tutor, give foster care children reliable support from people who will hold high expectations for them and encourage them. Steer them on the right path and a better life for themselves. Showing those kids that someone cares about them and what they do with their life will help them through challenging times.
Those are only some of the many problems and solutions in our nations foster care system. It doesn’t take much to help those kids out.