It’s the middle of the night and you’re awoken by a stranger. Ripped from your bed and taken away. Your alone and scared, you don’t know any of these people around you, you are in a strange place. No one tells you what is happening to you. This is what a child goes through when they are taken away from their parents and placed in the foster care system. There are more than 250,000 in the United States that enter the poster care system every year. More then half will eventually return to their parents, but what happens to the remaining ones in the system? To date there are 107,000 children waiting to be adopted. Most of these displaced children live with foster families, but some will remain in group facilities. These children at no fault of their own have been displaced due to neglect or abuse within their home.
Being taken away from their parents and moved from place to place can make a child feel that there is no one they can count on. How would you feel if you felt all alone in this world? Most children move from placement to placement numerous times a year, never knowing where they are going to end up. These children want nothing more than a place to call home. Someone to call their family, someone to love them unconditionally. We need a license to drive a vehicle, but we don’t need any training to have a child. Having a child is a privilege not a right.
There are children all over the world waiting to be adopted by a loving family. Taking care of the children of our world is one of the first steps in changing our world. Children need to grow up with love, support, and knowing they are worth something to someone. Teaching a child these aspects in life insures that they in turn will become well adjusted adults and will continue the cycle when they have children of their own. Remember one person can make a difference in our world.
It is appalling to watch the economic decline throughout the world where families cannot feed their own children due to unemployment and the middle class dropping down to poverty levels. Its a vicious circle where children are often the ones who are most victimized. By being poor guess who can control you? You are the mercy of those big corporations/banks/media/govt representatives and their evil agenda. Our children deserve a better world.
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DeleteTo be honest, i think its better these kids are taken away from their families, the family doesn't deserve the child, its better this way, than to have the child get older and older and be mad at the world or even try to commit suicide, and as they grow older they become more strong minded and understanding of the world!
ReplyDeleteThe results of poor kids/abused kids/suffered kids is they are very much strong minded and they are the change to the world..That is a fact!, look at the great people in history..and maybe you know some you are surrounded by!
Yes we should help these kids out, and YES they should be taken away from their family if abused, i wish there was a rule, if you abuse one child you shouldn't have anymore, that would be awesome lol..that would be one thing i wouldn't be against the government for!!
-MJheartdefiner