Essay On Foster Child Abuse

In today’s society violence and abuse have become a huge problem. It can be mental or physical abuse. Abuse can happen in any kind of relationship: boyfriend/girlfriend, parent/child, or employer/employee. The one area of abuse caught my eye is foster parents abusing foster children. This past year I know of some personal cases where the foster parents abused the foster children and have even killed one. In the journal “Confidentiality Act to Shield Abuse in Foster Care” it states, “As Miguel’s brain swelled with blood, his foster parents waited more than four hours before they took him to the hospital. The child, whose body was covered in bruises, never regained consciousness. He died in the hospital before his biological family could be located” (Callahan). People like this is what is hurting the foster care system the most. A problem which is becoming very serious is foster parents abusing the foster children while they are in there care. This can happen because of many different factors: foster parents being stressed, children being unruly, even just not knowing how to properly take care of the children, for some it’s just they are repeating actions over and over again. In a newspaper article titled “Foster
If they could find more homes or group homes it would relieve the stress the foster parents are feeling. In the book Shattered Bonds: Color of Child Welfare, it had some disturbing news, “Disturbing headlines reveal a system that is too overwhelmed to care properly for the children it takes from their parents” (Roberts 221). So if they could train more people how to properly care for the children this would not be a problem. This will not only help with the overpopulations of children in the homes but it will also help with relieve some of the stress of the foster parents and it will bring down the abuse rates in the foster care