Benefits Of Foster Care

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Foster care is a very good service. It serves any children who are experiencing abuse or neglect from there family. Children in foster care may live with unrelated foster parents or even with a family member, foster care is supposed to be a temporary service that responds to a crises with in the family they live with the exception is just a temporary service that expects them to return to their parents as soon as possible, or will be provided with a safe and loving family through adoption. Over the last decade the population of children going into foster care has drastically increased! In 2013, over 640,000 children spent time in United States foster care and in 2013 also there were more then 58,000 children who were living in a foster care and waiting to be adopted had their biological parental rights permanently terminated. The percent of where foster children are living is 46% in a family home ( non-relative). With all this could you imagine switching family’s every 6 months or less learning new house hold rules, getting along with “siblings” and never having one place to call home? …show more content…
In foster care the noticed 18% were emotional disturbed, 18% had learning disabilities. The most percent of kids going into foster care are five years old or younger (39%) and the highest race is white children (42%). These children that are entering foster care is sometimes for the better of there sake its more sad to see kids who are living in bad conditions, or when they are in foster care and get sent back to there biological parents and are still not getting the attention they may need. I believe it is very hard on a child who is only five years old going back and forth from foster care to their parents I feel like it should only be allowed so many times before they are completely taken away! This is all very hard on a