Whats foster care, explain?

Turtle Isle

basically its welfare receipiants making a buck off of abusing kids and keeping their fostercare money for their own wants- They use kids torn from their family as an income source and deprive them further

Looney Tunes

Foster care is a system that provides care for children 0-18 who have been removed from their biological parents for reasons usually relating to abuse, neglect, and/or drug abuse.

Children are assigned to live in foster homes or group homes. They "live" with another family or in a group home while their biological parents are improving their lives and getting treatment.

Children in foster care can spend a couple of months or years in the foster care system. If a child is in care long enough, the biological parent's rights may be terminated if the bio-parents are not following the court's requirements. Parent's rights may also be terminated if the abuse has been serious enough where the courts deem it unsafe to ever return the child to their bio-parents. When the rights are terminated, a child becomes "legally free" for adoption.

The foster care system is governed by the state; but family court makes the rulings.

In general:
50-60% of children are returned to their bio-parents
20-30% of children become "legally free" for adoption after their parent's rights are terminated

I spent 11 years in the system; from age 7 until 18. I lived in 12 different foster families and group homes during my time in the system.

sweetjane

Foster care is system run by the state to place children in temporary homes while their natural parents work on some issues that required the child to be removed from the home. Generally, children are returned to their natural homes once their parents have worked on their problems/ issues that caused the child to be removed, though some do not fix the problems and, thus, their children are removed permanently and are placed in adoptive homes.

frogcowgirl

Foster care is where children go to be abused.

In our state if you are a man doing drugs, beating your children, letting your children run around town getting arrested the state does not take your children from you. This man's child was eventually taken form him when the boy went to his mother's after he was beaten. The father turned him in as a runaway. The court was going to give the kid back until the grandmother brought it to the court's attention that there was a police report on the beating. The kid spent 6 months in foster care. He was in a group home where a member of the staff hit him. He was transferred to a foster home where the lady's son used his stuff and the foster child got in trouble for telling the kid he didn't want him using his game system. This lady shouldn't have had foster kids anyway as her son was arrested for vandalism.

Another instance. Single mother was working two jobs, one of which was while her children were at school. The children were 13 and 10, no childcare. The kids were taken away because the mom worked two jobs. The foster mother hated the boy and he was told by her that she didn't like him. He was denied food and lost 10 lbs but grew two inches. (If he is getting taller he shouldn't have lost weight). He was attacked by another foster child who was arrested. That boy was left in the home where he could have attacked the child again. The girl had to have her hair cut because there was a big knot in the back. The worse abuse the children were only allowed to see their mother two hours a week. The mother did everything she was asked. She had never done drugs so that wasn't a problem but the kids were given to the father who didn't pay child support for 4 years and chose not to see his children for 6 years. Now the children only get to talk to their mother for 30 minutes a piece a week and they haven't seen her for two years.

I am friends with the only caring foster parent in the state. She tells me all kinds of things the kids she has taken care of have been through.

stellar <3

To my knowledge, it is when you take in a child/children to live with you until they find a family to adopt them.

tattooedgemini

foster care is where kids go if their parents can't look after them or don't want them and there is no suitable relatives willing to take them. it's basically government funded long term babysitters.

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