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    Title: Foster Kids and the System Specific Speech Purpose: To inform my audience about the nature, problems, and proposed solution of the Foster Care System. INTRODUCTION: The Foster Care System with the kids who are in it is a massive social issue that America is facing today. There are more than 640,000 foster children in the United States every year. There are 23,000 foster children living in group homes at one time. There are 32,000 who live in institutions, and twenty-seven states do not

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    For many years, foster care has been a difficult subject throughout our society. When the idea of foster care comes to mind, many immediately think of screaming children, distressed parenting and uphill battles. Before foster care existed in the United States, orphaned children were sent to orphanages. While these institutions were often the best option available to children with nowhere else to go, they often lacked the necessary staff, structure and resources to adequately care for all of the children

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    S. R. (n.d.). Behavior Problems, Academic Skill Delays and School Failure Among School-Aged Children in Foster Care: Their Relationship to Placement Characteristics This article discussed the behavioral issues, scholarly ability deferrals, and school dissatisfactions that children in the foster care system face. The article broadly expounds on the number and rates of child care kids who battle with these issues. They additionally inspect how the conduct issues are related with their scholarly

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    I bet you've never seen what happened to kids in foster care. Some children need different care than others, and might live a better life if they could get care that meets their needs. This information allows this paper to state that foster care systems have some major issues that need to be fixed. This can be supported because the children in foster care that are running away, the many deaths and abuse of children, their futures being affected, and lastly, i'm going to talk about a way to solve

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    As of today, approximately 415,000 children are in the foster care system within the United States of America, and about 22,000 teenagers age out of the system, without any assistance, or any financial support (AFCARS 2015). Without guidance, it is more than likely for a teenager to turn to selling drugs, prostitution, or other criminal activities to provide for their basic necessities. Research has shown that those who leave foster care without any stability, have a higher probability to face prison

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    out of foster care are dead, homeless, or in jail within a year. There needs to be more focus on the foster care system and child homelessness. Children should not be living on the streets, they need a home and a loving family so that they can grow up and live a stable, independent life. Unfortunately, there will always be kids who get abused and neglected, and there will always be people who live in poverty, but this issue can be improved. First, we need more educational training for foster parents

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    My first introduction to Foster Care was when I watched an advertisement that showed foster children who looked lonely and neglected. The message of the advertisement was to donate any spare clothes and food that one had. The first time I saw this advertisement I was very young and did not understand the concept of being an orphan. I asked my parents why these children were on television and why it was asking for donations. My parents explained to me that there were children in the world that lost

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    The foster care system has been around for generations, constantly adjusting the system to modernize it. But there’s been a loss of protection in the system through these last few years. The foster care system needs to change because children are being placed in unsafe environments, funding is going in unnecessary places, the adoption process has some discouraging qualifications, and education in the system doesn’t have a huge importance. Children in the foster care system are being put in unsafe

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    conducted a series of research activities on foster care. It wasn’t exactly a specific organization, but a variety of them. This was to have different functions of how foster care and adoption works to unite new families together. I was thoroughly interested in this engagement activity due to my basic knowledge of the unfairness of the U.S. foster care system alone. One of my main focuses was international foster care and how different it may be from foster care in the United States. This engaging activity

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    “Suit to Accuse New York City and State of Keeping Children in Foster Care Too Long” author Vivian Lee discuses a suit against New York filed by the city public advocate’s office. The suit accuses the system of delays, mismanagement, and incompetence, causing harm to children by keeping them in the system for months and years longer than necessary. Lee cites the stories of three foster care children; Elisa, who has been in foster care over a decade, has been abused both mentally and physically and

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