”You were not accident. You were designed on purpose… for a purpose. Throughout society today, the idea of foster care to many people is that every child finds an amazing foster home or a home where they at least get everything a child could need. In my research the articles “Maryland tries to strengthen foster care for gay and transgender youths”, “Foster care 2006”, “Foster care 2007”, “After a lifetime of foster homes and abuse, a 14-year-old broadcast her suicide on facebook”, “After 20 Years, Young Man Leaves Foster Care On His Own Term”, “Foster Children Still Need Support as They Reach Adulthood”, “ Adoption and foster care”, and the poem “Foster Care” all come together to explain what foster care is and what the kids go through. What the struggles are, everyday issues foster kids at the age of 13- 17 have to go through in their adolescent …show more content…
Kinship helps for the fact that there are only so many foster parents so it helps to have the children family take care of them. In the article Maryland tries to strengthen foster care for the gay and transgender youths they try and explain new policies, and what they are doing to welcome the LGBTQ community.
“Maryland’s new policy does not go as far as those in some other states. For example it does not require that all foster parents undergo training on working with LGBTQ youths”( The Washington Post, Paragraph 13) The kids are suppose to feel comfortable in a home they were put in by being themselves but many kids hide who they are. “ Maryland officials are taking steps to create a more welcoming foster-care system for gay, bisexual and transgender children”( The Washington Post, Paragraph 1) . This is something that needs to be done for the reason that foster kids already go through a lot and not being able to be themselves is just too much on a