Persuasive Essay On Foster Child Abuse

“How would you feel if you spent your entire childhood being shipped from one foster home to another?” Many kids get sent from home to another all the time in foster care some kids will have lived up to 10 different homes before being adopted. Lots of kids get put into foster care to never be adopted and then have no family. My topic is controversial because people have different views on how the foster care system should be ran. Although many people think the foster care program is fine as it is, more control is needed over how foster parents handle things, because 13% of all foster kids run away at least once, Most kids in foster care are victims of some sort of child abuse, and kids wait a long time to be adopted. 13% of all foster kids run away at least once.
One in every eleven foster kids have been sexually abused at least once. In New York in 2007 of the 2250 victims of human trafficking 75% were in foster care. In 2012 there were more than 3.3 million reports of child abuse in foster care. One in every six kids is a victim of physical abuse. Children who experience child abuse and neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit a violent crime.30% of abused children will later abuse their own children. 7.60% of child abuse abuse case are from sexual abuse. 25% of children ages 1 to 3 years are abused. There was 297,971 alleged victims but only 98,435 were confirmed cases of child abuse. More than 5 kids die each day as a result of child abuse. Most victims to child abuse were abused by family. 78.30 % of child abuse cases are from neglect. In the united states a child is abused or neglected every 47 seconds. It is estimated that between 100,000-300,000 American youth are currently at risk for becoming victims of trafficking. The average age of a child who enters the sex trade in the US is 12-14 years