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This may be in the wrong forum, but this is the one I can relate to.
We all know that with a few( I think even less than a few) exceptions adoption van be awfully painful for all involved.
When I was adopted some 45 years age there were of course un-wed moms who had to give up their babies for whatever reason. Societal acceptance comes to mind. Pressure from families. Financial reasons, etc.
Well in this current age There is an epidemic of unwanted babies (human beings) They will never know the smell of their own mother (flesh and blood). Never know who their father was. An identity crisis is a harsh harsh situation. I know this for a fact. And it hurts.
Back to the -point. It is elementary. More and more of these unwanted people who grow up in a foster home, get the boot at 18, then go on the streets. Unwanted, hated, abused even more, and finally institutionalized.
Nobody even gives them a single thought now. But wait! They are the future of our country! Perfectly good people tossed aside like an empty wrapper.
I do not relish the thought when these young adults are roaming the streets with murder in their eyes. I can not blame them a bit!
Hell, maybe I am all wrong. Many will find their way into
state ran homes and we all know what an awesome nanny mother government is.:eek: :czechrepublic:
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Yes, sadly the situation of many people who'd survived growing up in Australia's state-run foster care institutions has left a long, painful, often bloodied path of damage. In fact, both the federal government in Australia [url=http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/clac_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/report/]Parliament of Australia: Senate: Committee: Report: Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care[/url] and the state government of Victoria, Australia [URL="http://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Own_motion_investigation_into_child_Protection_-_out_of_home_care_May_2010.pdf"]http://www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Own_motion_investigation_into_child_Protection_-_out_of_home_care_May_2010.pdf[/URL] have done extensive studies on the abuse of people surviving foster care. Here's the thread that I'd posted in the Foster Care section of adoption.com [URL="http://forums.adoption.com/recommended-books-movies-music-etc/375966-abuse-foster-care-aussie-govt-report.html"]http://forums.adoption.com/recommended-books-movies-music-etc/375966-abuse-foster-care-aussie-govt-report.html[/URL]
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Scary to say the least. Here in the USA, foster parenting is actually a cottage industry. Back in another lifetime I was a building contractor. Three homes I personally built were for foster "parents". I use the term parent very loosely. I could already see that those kids were very unhappy. In one case the "parents" drove extremely nice (expensive) cars, had sumptuous furniture, and wore some fine threads. While the children were either banished to the basement where they stayed or were toiling away in the yard or the kitchen. This really pissed me off. I found out later that they got busted for some kind of fraud and sent to jail. Justice was done to those scumbags, but the kids were more than likely just pawned off to another foster farm. :czechrepublic: