Note: I speak from experience as a hosting Foster family who have adopted two of the six residing minors we have received from the system. How many times have we heard the term 'Foster Care' in a positive way? Or maybe you've heard of the lion's den of 'Social Services' or the oh-so-ominous 'System' we most likely heard about in the movies? We may see this system as cruel and unfathomable, yet this system is meant to be founded on the actions of the public. Foster 'parents' are to be licensed after many courses of training. In my area, this includes at least ten hours of training, a full home inspection, and multiple background checks. Some of the types of training include things like first aid, CPR, and the likes. Classes can be on how to handle the different age groups within the home, attachment issues, and how to deal with disobedience in an acceptable way. (Lets face it, we kids are spoiled by the law. We have the opportunities to put our parents in jail for punishing us for our negative actions. But this is for another time in another post). The system wouldn't be so loose in its requirements if it wasn't already stretched thin in its resource of good people willing to invest their time in these kids. …show more content…
Background checks take place at length, and any information they can take into their file, they record. This can include fingerprints of all members of a residence. Home inspections are to be thorough, trust me, I remember being annoyed as a kid for random inspections we got in our home. The rubric for these inspections include some things such as firearms being locked up, the number of available beds for the number of short-term or long-term residents, any type of medications being tightly locked up, a seeming arsenal of easily accessible fire extinguishers, and if applicable, tests for the water to countryside