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Foster Care

   Millions of kids around the world are living or have lived in a foster home. Imagine you as a kid, and imagine you having nowhere to stay, like some of the millions of kids in the world, how would you feel? They are very lucky to have a foster care to go to and stay in. If we didn’t have foster homes around the world, who knows where those kids would be. They would most likely not have a home.

       Foster cares can be good and bad. Some foster parents are very warm, cozy, and nice but on the other hand, some can be rude, hurtful, and abusive. Some foster parents take advantage of the kids. They only want the kids for the money from the government. They take that money and use it for themselves. The money should go to the foster care and directly to the kids in need. According to http://aspiranetheroes.rtrk.com/?scid=1915313&gclid=COfsh_i4nqYCFRRKgwod4ycNow “There are over seventy-five thousand children in foster care in California.” “If kids are in need of foster care, they should be able to go to a home and feel welcomed.” They shouldn’t have to be abused and they shouldn’t have to be treated like slaves. There are definitely many ways foster cares can be improved by the foster care parents and by the government.

       Foster care can be improved if the states individually watch the children so they know what is going on with them at all times. Instead of the children being checked on once a month to see how they are doing, they should start visiting them twice a month. According to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061214081500AahIVwm, “Foster care can be improved by enforcing rules for the social workers to evaluate their cases a lot more often.” “They should start doing a lot more background checks on the foster parents who are thinking of fostering.” One way foster care can be improved is that there are not as many foster kids in one foster home. Especially the kids who are special needs, they need their own special treatment and if there are 10 to 15 kids on the house, they might not have all of the care they need. A lot of people look at it this way. The government needs to watch out for the foster homes more and not as many kids in foster homes at once. However I say, the foster cares in California and any other states needs to follow more rules of the government and the government needs to follow through with more child care laws.

       Another issue is siblings are getting separated when they arrive to foster cares. I think that if you have a brother or sister, wherever they go, they should be like a package deal. It’s not fair to the children if they’re already being separated their biological parents and now their siblings who they have grown up with for a long or short period of time. According to http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/siblingissues/siblingissues4.cfm, “For children entering care, being with siblings can enhance their sense of safety and well-being.” “Siblings in the same home can provide natural support to each other and some sense of stability and belonging.” Some people say that once you’re out of foster care, more people are looking for their siblings then their biological parents. Eighty-seven to ninety of siblings are together in a foster home. Foster cares might keep siblings together as little as twenty-five percent of the time. There are many different paths children take when they are living in a foster home. You could be talking about just yourself or you could be talking about siblings staying together or separating.

       If you’re having problems with government, siblings staying together or even the amount of kids in a foster home, there is always improvement and ways things can be changed. The government has a big part in foster cares. The best thing to do is have the government check up on the kids twice a month and even investigate if the foster parents are doing their job and treating the children the right way. Foster care is a big role in the United States and every bit of help we can get would make the job a whole lot easier.