[FamilyProtection] Broken Adults: The Truth About Aging Out Of Foster Care System.
The outcomes of every designed system determines if such a system is to be upheld, changed or terminated. The ends determines if the means are indeed appropriate, the results of any system should as well be its "upholder" or "terminator". The end product of CPS and the foster care system has been undeniably awful and outrageously disastrous.
When a foster child turns 18, they are said to "age out" of the system, in the literal sense, all support, housing, cares and provision by the government cease to be available to them. At that point, they are no longer of any "marketable" value to the system, so the children transcending to adulthood are retired. Naturally, most foster kids seemed to be initially joyed to be living the system that has kept them captive, only to realize that they were not only kept captive, their every worth, self-confidence, emotional independence and all attachment that would have initially prepared them for the outside world were robbed off them the moment they were taken from their families.
This children who had received no love from the system, not able to settle down with a foster home for long to perhaps create some bond no matter how little, because they were moved randomly from one home to the other, facing rejection, then become a burden and weight on the world.
Many of this kids have been disoriented by the system, placed on psychotropic drugs, when they could have easily felt better by care and love from their families. Mental health classes and expert help are dropped because the system wants to ripoff as much dollars they could, so resolving to psychological drugs to influence their mental state. This mental conditions would never had occurred if they had and where a part of a family unit and were not made to pass through a trauma by CPS.
How Do You Think they would treat adulthood?, these are people who didn’t have the chance to mess themselves up and then be corrected and adviced by their parents, they turn adults and tend to want to act the “kid” they never had the chance to, in crimes and everything. They never had the love and care every normal child needed to bring forth the man and strong woman in them. This profound departure from the family connection they lacked stumped their life.
This children who had been broken, emotionally and psychologically unstable, drugged at various phases of their lives, maltreated by the system and unloved are then retired into the outside world without due support or any help, this is unacceptable!. Well I am not surprised with this outcomes, because a broken system hardly maintains a full-mentally prepared and matured individuals ready to take on the world positively. What happens when they go out?
- Homelessness
An average of about 28,500 age out of foster care in America yearly, this I calculated from averaging the reports from various statistical researches in the last 10 years. This is indeed a huge number going out without "real" support and aid, some are incapable of locating their biological families or are unconnected when they do. The image below from Connections-Homes gives an insight to the problem of homelessness this young adult begin to experience immediately. 36% of almost 28,500(average) is a huge number flocking the the street of America homeless.
- Unemployment
By age 21, 50% of age outs turn out unemployed.(Chapin Hall )
- Crime
From a statistic report from the US Department of Justice, 55% of former foster kids two years after aging out were incarcerated and 74% former foster kids find themselves in U.S. Prison. From a study by the Chapin Hall group some years ago, examining data for 21 years former foster kids vs kids who did not live in the system. It showed 55.3% males arrested since their 18th birthday, while those who didn't pass through the care system was merely 7.5%. For females, it was 29.6% vs 0.5%. The percentage for foster kids increases more as years transcends. By 21, approximately 77% would have been arrested. - Pregnancy And Prostitution
The females easily result to prostitution or relenting to "survival sex" as compared to their male counterparts who engage in possible crime, just to get basic necessities. It is reported that by age 21, 71% of women become pregnant. This pregnant teens, mostly end up being a supply for foster system again since most times are unable to care for them, it is highly depressing to see this happen.
These are just but a few of the things that happens!, many of this youths are socially isolated and faced with the challenges of making life-dependent decision alone, unprepared and unsupported.
The outcome of the foster care system and it's supplier(CPS), is just a cycle of broken people. Many kids spend their time in confinement and end up in another confinement as adults(Prison) because they were deprived of their rights to live with their families most of the times based on spurious lies prior to their removal. This system creates more broken adults than any system ever developed by man kind, these broken adults ends up birthing children who mostly end up in the foster system again!. It is one bad cycle that needs to be stopped. The outcomes of the foster care system is an enough factor for its termination.
The best solution to this insidious system, is for children to stay with their parents while help is been provided in every way possible by the government. Ronald Reagan once said Government can’t solve the problem. Government is the problem.! The foster system and CPS bodies are a spiting example to this comment.
To everyone who were able to transcend out of the foster care system and made a huge positive survival, Keep striving on!. To all the numerous people who still feel the past impact and are still overwhelmed, your VOICES are rising up to the surface, louder every second!, keep striving on positively.
Let us for just a second ask ourselves, "Did they deserve to be treated in this manner?, did they deserve to be disconnected from their homes?, did they deserve this spiteful turn in their lives?".
May they find peace, joy, love and many reasons to be THANKFUL, TODAY AND ALWAYS.
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are using "Child Protection Agencies"
to take children away from loving families
and place them in foster care or group homes.
plight of families and children.
Foster children are not provided the proper mental health counseling and life skills to adapt in the outside would. The accumulate much baggage through all they were put through. But it is not properly addressed. Often standards, values and morals are developed due to poor parenting skills. And big daddy government is not going to step up to the plate and teach them. Much in life traces back to money and this does as well. Homelessness, crime and unemployment are symptoms to a bigger problem that has been unaddressed. If proper nurturing and psychological issues would be addressed we would not see these symptoms as often. Thanks for drawing this to our attention. We need a conversation on this topic.
Yeah, the list goes on and on. They would rather keep the kids on Psychotropic drugs to suppress their emotions than provide them adequate help with psychological issues!. A study made by Lucette Lagnado, showed that Psychotropic drug abuse was 11.9% in the case of foster children compared to 2.6% of their counterparts.
Why won't the child be in trauma!, when they are separeted from every form and values that only family can give.
Thanks @enjoywithtroy for your great contribution
I can so agree. There was a time when I was on certain medications to combat the psychological. They are only a band aid do not address the real problem. They only suppress the symptoms. May these children and adult once in the system find something to be thankful for today. Happy Thanksgiving my friend.
Amen, they will. Happy thanksgiving to you too. :)
Thank you for this piece @kryptocoin and addressing your statement: ''The outcome of the foster care system and it's supplier(CPS), is just a cycle of broken people. " ( I do not yet know how to make the block quotes)
I attended a seminar many years ago, over 20,000 people in attendance. The speaker was telling a heart wrenching story about a baby boy that had been abandoned on the steps of a hospital.
The baby was put in the nursery, in a bed in the corner. The nurses simply called him "no name" for the first few months/years until he was placed in foster care. He was moved multiple times and as he got older would run away often.
When he "gratuated" from foster care he was turned out on his own to fend for himself.
I think we know the rest of the story, his name was : Charles Manson
These children and their families need help now and in all the good things I see in Steemit working towards "making the world a better place" there could be no higher priority than the growing community for @familyprotection
Blessings to all that can see through the eyes of a child.
I heard of Mason, it is so sad how this system changes all the humanity in the kids into something hurtful. The CPS, foster system and its corruption need to be called to trial. Thank you for bringing this up @vickiebarker. We will see very better days ahead, we have started it already, TOGETHER
Thanks for putting this out. I wanted to do something for a charity in the summer & looked into a local foster charity organization. One of the first things they advertised was giving kids supplies for football. So I called & asked why they are supporting kids receiving brain damage. Dug a little deeper & found organizational ties to the corrupt nfl. Remember jerry Sandusky? Think he was the only one in football? If you are concerned about the well being of children who are targeted for abuse, investigate your local charities that are suppose to help children in need. They are targets for sick organizations such as & much worse than football. 800,000 reports of missing children a year in this country, the highest rate of any state by far is Virginia. Organized intelligent predators create infrastructure to funnel their prey. Investigate charities that claim to help children and really help the children
Absolutely, there is great need to investigate every charity out there. Its true that many charities even work and in hand with this bad systems, and and just funnel away funds from the kids they where donated for. Lets us all research all charities to make sure they are trustworthy. Lets STAND together in Love and compassion and make the voices of these children heard. Great thanks to you @ceattlestretch for your contribution
Protect the weak & expose those who prey on them!
Same thing, although foster care is not so developed. Many of those that take kids in only do it for the money. As for those who grow up in state institutions, they suffer terrible abuse and they're out on the streets once they turn 18.
@ladyrebecca. You are very right, those in the institution suffer the most. Sub-consciously, whenever I say foster care system, I usually intend to pitch both the institutions and facilities under that word. I think I would have to be more precise next time on. Thank you so much @ladyrebecca for you contribution. :)
the government 'fixed' the previous system.
@everittdmickey, thank you for your comment, yes, the government brought another act in 2008, for extension in foster care upto 19, 20 or 21. This act allowed the "STATE" to receive "reimbursement" under the federal title IV-E, well, this only added little "changes" to the lives of those who desired to stay. But it didn't change the situations of this people that much.
Secondly, not all states implemented this extension.
The odds of those who stayed was good, but not by any considerably huge margins either, this people still had to live within this system they already detested, most of them were traumatized and the damage had already been done. Most of the funds are not implemented well by the states for what it aught to be used for.
Another thing is "A huge number of the foster children who had been in foster care for so long do not see the need to stay either because they want to leave, they were tired of the system and the troubles they get everyday." On paper it was supposed to be good, a few have benefited, Below are the condition to be eligible for this extension :
So, not all were eligible for this extension.
A transition plan is only made 90 days prior to the child leaving the foster home.
The set back were still huge, for most, it was like staying extra years same way they have stayed all year. It's implementation was greatly loose and many state never accepted to extend, After Nine years of this Act, there has only been little changes to the whole system. If the government wants to make any change, She has to go deeper and deeper down the root to solve the main problems, that exceeds all these. The negative effect of the whole system is still very huge . Thank you so much @everittdmickey
you're welcome.
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