Argumentative Essay On Foster Home

When a person has a child, that child becomes their responsibility and a part of their world. Further, when a baby is born into a family, it is the parents’ responsibility to create a safe and healthy environment for their children to grow up in. Not only do they have to work hard to provide and care for their children, but they must show their children love and care. When parents can’t care for their children or think the environment that they are planning to provide isn’t good rough, they look towards putting their children in foster care. In the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the parents of four children, put their lives before their children’s. Instead of working to provide food on the table for their children and, providing
Children usually end up having foster parents when the biological parents can no longer care for their children, and the government or a social worker will take them away from their parents and give them a better home. Many children end up in a foster homes because of abusive parents or irresponsible parents. “American children who were in, entering or exiting foster care grew from 399,546 in 2003 to 520,000 in 2012” (Rash 1A-9A). Foster care can be another opportunity at a healthier life for children. A foster parent can change a child’s life by giving education, food, love, care, and a home. The Walls children would have had a better life if they were taken away from their parents and given foster parents because they needed responsible parents to care for them and love them. However foster care could have been a temporary option for the Walls Children. As soon as the parents realized their children missing, and the parents wanted to improve, the children could have had a second chance with their parents. However the children would have the supervision of a social