Foster Care Argumentative Essay

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Think back to how excited you were to turn eighteen. Freedom awaited you. You were finally a legal adult and the rest of your life was before you. The drudgery of high school was over and the grander adventures of college or traveling the world had started. It had the allure of independence and adulthood without carrying all of the responsibilities. When you realized that you did not actually know how to work a washing machine, you could guiltily bring your dirty clothes home knowing mom would wash them for you. You knew that when you needed help filling out tax forms, dad was just a call away to guide you through it. When you were feeling sick and did not know what to do, mom could show up with a steaming bowl of chicken noodle soup. Over …show more content…
Every year, approximately between twenty three (Soronen) to twenty six thousand (Wiltz) foster youth age out of the system in America. In Colorado, around 300 youth age (Brundin) out of the foster care system each year, which amounts to about ten percent of the total foster care population (“Data”). As Rita Soronen, President and CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, states, open quote “Because we know that children thrive in families -- not institutions or transient, temporary care -- we made a promise to those children. We promised the day they were permanently separated from their families that we would find them new ones. A place to call home, to be loved, supported and cherished, as every child should. We failed 23,439 children last year [in 2012], and legally emancipated them from care.” end quote Not only have we abandoned these children from having a home or support system, we also have set them up for failure. By the time they turn eighteen, most of these youth have not even graduated high school yet. Fewer than thirty percent of foster care youth graduate high school within the normal four year period (Clemens). That means that the other seventy percent are removed from the system in their junior, or even sophomore year of high school. The success rate is even slimmer in Colorado; while three quarters of non-foster youth and half of all homeless youth will graduate in the normal four years, only twenty five percent of foster youth will graduate in this time period (Brundin). If these kids do not even have the education level that all of us in this room have, how can we expect them to succeed on their own in
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