The governance of America likes to sell the story that they care about the children of America, by virtue of all the programs, vouchers, aid, and money so available for the care of those children, directly or indirectly. The thing is though, that America has a foster care system, that expends billions upon billions upon that foster care and the logistics, so of; but doesn’t seem often enough to get the positive result, that is truly beneficial for those children that have become part of that foster care program.
If, in fact, the purpose of foster care, is to do what is right and therefore best for children, because their biological parents are somehow incapable of doing it themselves, then the corresponding burden to prove that this is actually being competently accomplished, remains exclusively upon all those that make up the foster care system and the standard that those that are part and parcel of the foster care system, should be in keeping with the fact that the United States is the richest nation that the world has ever known.
That is to say, when this nation believes that for the good of a given child, that they need to remove that child from its biological parents as well as to possibly separate them from their siblings, then that nation needs to clearly demonstrate that this is far superior to any other conceivable solution; of which, that proof therefore rests in the actual results of how these children have truly fared within the foster care system, without any corresponding equivocation, excuses, or reasons for why such has fallen short of where it should justly be. No doubt, there are some foster care children that do quite well with their foster parents, but that is always going to be case within just about any program. In truth, the only fair evaluation of America’s foster care system, is how in aggregate, these foster care children have done.
The seminal problem with foster care is the fact that in the vast majority of cases, those that are the biological parents of those children, are the very ones that have the highest vested interest in seeing the success of their children, as well as also being those that love and are loved by their children, more than anyone else. In regards to foster parents, these people have no biological connection to those children, whatsoever; and further to the point, a significant portion of those that desire to be a foster parent revolves around the compensation so provided to those foster parents on behalf of those foster children. Again, there isn’t any doubt that many foster parents desire to do right by their foster children, and probably put forth a real good effort in doing so, but at the end of the day, these are not actually their biological children, and therein lies the rub.
Not every parent is a good parent, but most parents care about their children, of which it would behoove that government to put forth a more concentrated effort to lend a helping hand in regards to employment training, education, actual employment, as well as meaningful financial support to assure that each family has a fair chance at decent housing, a living wage, a decent educational foundation, and the accouterments so needed for their children to receive what they need to better themselves. In other words, better governance, would make it a priority to fix foundational issues that stress families out and divides them, rather than separating what should be seen as a priority to preserve.