What Really Happens with
Kids in Foster Care

It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed in several different homes throughout their childhood. Because of shortages of good foster homes, some are even moved far from away home.

Children are ripped from all that they know, family, friends, their schools; their belongings are taken from them. Many show up on the doorstep of a foster home with nothing but a trash bag full of personal belongings.

This can have a profound effect on a child who desperately needs stability in order to grow, thrive and function in the world we live in.

Although their claim is to find permanent placements, that is much easier said then done. First of all, federal regulations give the real parents time and opportunities to fix their situations, although it is not always possible to return the children to a safe home, it is always the first goal.

Many foster care children are considered even considered to be unadoptable. Also, foster parents often can't handle some of the children who come into their homes. So the trend has been to put them someplace else.

They end up in another new school. They end up living with another set of strangers. Any friends that they have made are gone. Any contacts that they have had with their families are cut off.

Foster children are often heavily medicated.

Children in foster care come with a whole host of mental issues and behavioral problems. Many of these issues are caused by the abuse or neglect that they suffered in their own homes, while many more are caused by being in foster care.

In fact, many children end up in foster care not because they were abused or neglected, but because some social worker showed up at their door and decided that the parents couldn't handle a child with such special needs.

Children who are bounced around from home to home tend to develop attachment disorders. Children who have their lives ripped out from under them tend to get angry and act out.

The simple answer to this is to medicate them. It is much easier then actually dealing with the root of the problems of foster children.

Kids in foster care are medicated with powerful psychiatric drugs for everything from ADHD to depression often whether they need them or not.

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