The Foster System
Informative Essay: When Children Become Numbers
Alex Wahl
Sullivan University
Eng 102
Urzuablaul, Allison
4/30/2012
The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. Because of these facts, the media labels this system and not only a last chance scenario but also almost as a punishment for children because they were not adopted or have not been adopted by families yet. The system has many flaws and the media exploits those flaws regularly without any action taken by the government or governing bodies that manage the system. Because of flaws and their exploitation in …show more content…
The negative connotation that people associate with the system not only breeds that negative energy within the people who involve themselves with the system, it is spreading to others who only see the system in various outlets. The system has many flaws that the media exploits on a regular basis, but the recurring items that centralize where the disconnect happen involve two main ideas; the system has very little funding in all aspects of its operations and the practices and procedures of the systems date back to mid 20th century with very little reform during the time leading up to the …show more content…
This is generally the basis for any movie or TV show that portrays a foster care system, much like the movie The Blindside. The negative portrayal of the system and how they do lose track of a person within their own system shows the director 's intent on the portrayal of the system in this movie. Michael is a child of the system due to a negligent mother and non-existent father, the system loses track of him and who he is staying with at the current time. When the family that brings him to their home wants to adopt him, the system proves to be a hassle with few consistencies and no answers are given to the mother or even Michael himself. The case worker refers to Michael as a number in the system, and since there were very few records in his file, his case worker seems to brush it off as a normal everyday occurrence rather than a big issue, since this is a human being they are dealing with and not just an inanimate object that is easily replaceable The way the media portrays this situation is eerily accurate unfortunately for many foster children in lower income communities or communities in which the foster care system is extremely lacking in
Alex Wahl
Sullivan University
Eng 102
Urzuablaul, Allison
4/30/2012
The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. Because of these facts, the media labels this system and not only a last chance scenario but also almost as a punishment for children because they were not adopted or have not been adopted by families yet. The system has many flaws and the media exploits those flaws regularly without any action taken by the government or governing bodies that manage the system. Because of flaws and their exploitation in …show more content…
The negative connotation that people associate with the system not only breeds that negative energy within the people who involve themselves with the system, it is spreading to others who only see the system in various outlets. The system has many flaws that the media exploits on a regular basis, but the recurring items that centralize where the disconnect happen involve two main ideas; the system has very little funding in all aspects of its operations and the practices and procedures of the systems date back to mid 20th century with very little reform during the time leading up to the …show more content…
This is generally the basis for any movie or TV show that portrays a foster care system, much like the movie The Blindside. The negative portrayal of the system and how they do lose track of a person within their own system shows the director 's intent on the portrayal of the system in this movie. Michael is a child of the system due to a negligent mother and non-existent father, the system loses track of him and who he is staying with at the current time. When the family that brings him to their home wants to adopt him, the system proves to be a hassle with few consistencies and no answers are given to the mother or even Michael himself. The case worker refers to Michael as a number in the system, and since there were very few records in his file, his case worker seems to brush it off as a normal everyday occurrence rather than a big issue, since this is a human being they are dealing with and not just an inanimate object that is easily replaceable The way the media portrays this situation is eerily accurate unfortunately for many foster children in lower income communities or communities in which the foster care system is extremely lacking in