T
his article was posted in response to a post at Deja.com regarding the statement, 'removal to fostecare is' "in the best
interest of the child".
There are good foster parents and most people who post here are willing to admit that, but foster care has become the only option to CPS. Most children in fostercare have not been abused until they arrive in fostercare. Children ripped from their homes suffer. What do you know about not fitting in? Never to have a family to call your own. To be labeled as a foster child, that label does not go away. To wonder at such a young age who will care for you next. To have to learn new rules of living every day. To wake in fear at night. To cry and have no one wipe away your tears. To suffer in silence because that is what you are taught. To lose the ability to bond with people, and
wonder who will reject you next, who will walk out on you
next. And these are just the emotions of the children who have
been put in good foster homes.
What about the children who
go to abusive homes, and they are out there. To be taken from
a parent because they can not care for you as the state deems
fit and put in a home where you are locked in closets, beaten
with firepokers, not allowed to bath but once a week. No one
ever hugs you or says they love you. You are not spoken to
until you have done something wrong. Afraid to sleep at night
for fear some one is out to kill you. Not allowed to use the
bathroom at night, and have the hell beat out of you for having
an accident at four years old. To be pinched, beaten, not fed,
not loved, and not cared for. To have everyone in your life
know you are a fosterchild. To feel you are the lowest form of
human at the tender age of nine. To consider how to take your
life because no one would care. To live with the feelings of
inadequacy all your life, because some all knowing CPS
worker came into your life and said your parents could not care
for you as the state thought proper.
And in today's time we as a
society still use this system, because people with no knowledge
of what it is like to live in the hell of fostercare, still label it
"in the best interest of the child".
