Speech- Foster care

Does foster care really help? Yes. Foster Care helps take care of the people that need it. For example, if the children can’t be controlled, if they’re being abused, or if their parents are sick then foster care can help support those children. There are many of different people in foster care. There are more than one million in foster care right now. I’m going to talk about what foster care is, statistics about foster care, and a case study about foster care. I believe we should celebrate the children that are and were in foster care more often. I want you to understand how important foster care is in the lives of many children. 

Some people ask, “What is foster care?” The Foster Care Program is some thing that affects hundreds of thousands of people. Foster care provides safety for children until they can go back to their biological family. In some cases, children will never return to their families. Every year, 30,000 young people do leave foster care.  All children and youth deserve a great life. They also deserve to have nurturing adults on their side. 

Foster care is good so children have a place to go when they can’t live at home. It also helps stop children from getting abused or neglected. A small percentage of kids are in foster care because they can’t control them. In the 1980’s about 300,000 children in the U.S. were in foster care. By 2001, 800,000 children in the U.S. were in foster care. ¼ of children entering foster care for the first time are infants. 60% of foster care children are under the age of four. 75% of children in foster care have been beaten.

There was a study done about the difference between children’s behavior who are in foster care and children’s behavior who are in group care homes. Foster care and group homes are primary placements for children in need. People in group homes tend to have more struggles than people in foster care. Chamberlain and colleagues found youth in foster care had a better outcome. The purposes for this study were to document and compare system contacts and compare the outcome. Children in foster care had a better outcome than children in group homes. 

Does foster care really help? Yes. Foster Care helps take care of the people that need it. If the children can’t be controlled, if they’re being abused, or if their parents are sick, they need foster care. Now you know a little more about foster care. You can help celebrate the ones that are and were in foster care more. You can help by doing more things for them in your community. An example of a guy trying to help foster care is Jimmy Wayne. He is a famous country singer. He started an organization called “meet me half way”. He also did this 1700 mile walk from Nashville to phoenix, AZ to raise awareness for the youth in foster care. You don’t have to go out and walk 1700 miles for foster care, but you can do things that will support foster care parents and children in foster care in your community. I hope you have all learned more about foster care and will support it within your community.