The Pros And Cons Of Foster Homes

The night Jennings was left out in a foster home, his mother swore to come back for him. But to Jennings dismay, he had to get used to being in foster homes for a while. He couldn’t have thought of being there and he couldn’t have thought that love only meant being alone, but his 8-year old mind didn’t know that. He didn’t know that he was going to jump from foster home to foster home. He didn’t know he would stay there until he concluded what love was to him on his own. Jennings Michael Burch was in the foster homes because his mother didn’t have the right necessities and the foster homes didn’t either. Jennings situation is not uncommon, but it can’t happen all the time. In the year of 2014, over 650,000 children spent their time in a U.S.
They wouldn’t experience trauma and neglect. In addition, the foster home parents shouldn’t be treating their foster children like abandoned animals. According to the article, “The Horror Stories These Former Foster Care Kids Have Sound Too Bad To Be True. But They're Not,” the victim, James, had told the author how his foster father did despicable things to James when he hung out with a kid of a different colored tone. The article reads, “...a racist foster father who saw him hanging out with a black friend, he beat James, drug him outside, clasped a dog collar around my neck, and cuffed his hand to a Confederate flag rail in front of the doghouse,” (Simon, 2014). This illustrates how a foster father was aggressive with James when he hung out with a friend that was different colored tone. His foster father dragged him outside and before he drug him outside, he beat him up. In words, that is physical abuse. Physical abuse isn’t accepted and the foster father should have known better than to beat James up just by the simple fact that he hung out with a black friend. Simon had written how he proceeded to put a dog collar around his neck. The foster father can’t treat human beings like animals and can’t be educating them like animals. She also wrote how he cuffed his hand on a confederate and told him vile words about James’ friend. The background check is obviously needed and they need to certificate the foster parents to see that they have been checked and aren’t related to any type of abuse in the past. Moreover, the foster home parents shouldn’t be surprised when their foster child comes out differently than the rest of the kids. The article, “The Horror Stories These Former Foster Care Kids Have Sound Too Bad To Be True. But They're Not,” also included a story that was about Marciella, who came out as a lesbian to her