Foster Life By Wendelin Draanen

Foster Life In every person’s life, people are faced with challenges that evoke the gumption and strength that they never knew they had. Sometimes that includes facing one’s biggest fear or learning what one’s biggest fear truly is. From the tragic story of a little girl named Holly, which was written by the author Wendelin Draanen, she always believed that her biggest fear was losing her mom, but she soon learned that her life would be filled with numerous fears that overpowered what she thought to be her biggest fear. She already knew that her mom loved heroine more than she loved her, but she did not allow that to stop the love she saved in her heart for her mom. When the day came that heroine stole her mother’s existence for good,

Foster systems have attempted alternative routes to traditional foster homes by trying group homes, but this does not provide the correct amount of care that a child should endure. With that drawback, there are statistics that are proven true that say the following: “In 2012, 23,396 youth aged out of the U.S. foster care system without the emotional and financial support necessary to succeed,” “Nearly 40% had been homeless or couch surfed, nearly 60% of young men had been convicted of a crime, and only 48% were employed,” “75% of women and 33% of men receive government benefits to meet basic needs,” and “50% of all youth who aged out were involved in substance use and 17% of the females were pregnant” (“Facts and

There is a report of child abuse placed every ten seconds (“Foster Care Facts”). In the novel, Away from Home, by Cris Beam, the author depicts the lifestyle of the “broken, maddening” foster care system. She informs the readers of the debate of parental philosophies that are most influential in the life of a child. Beam describes the Social Services’ system of foster care as a moral chessboard that should cautiously move and always be ‘on-guard’ for every attempt when assessing the best option for a child’s life. A child is one of the most precious gifts that are given to people, and it is easy to damage the sensitivity of their innocence. One tough question that Beam is unable to correctly answer in her novel was “what if a child’s right to protection from harm has been trampled on so often, and the child has been so damaged, that even the most well-meaning foster parent will throw up her hands and send the kid packing — again?” (Beam