Effects of mistreatment in foster care

There are some people who decide to become a foster family because they want to help children and want to provide a loving and stable home for a child who really needs it. Then there are the other types of people who apply to be a foster family for the wrong reasons. When a child is placed in a loving home, the chances are as an adult the child will be loving and compassionate. 

But if the child is placed in a home that doesn’t really care about them and the family only applied to be a foster family so the state can pay them then chances are the child will end up neglected or maybe even abused. 80% of children that are placed in child foster care are neglected or mistreated. 

That number is unacceptable. Children can suffer emotional as well as physical abuse and those are the children who end up in and out of therapy. If they don’t seek treatment for the abuse then they will become a person just going from one system (foster care) to another ( jail). 

The foster care system has to do more and maybe do more visits when they suspect a child may be abused. Then the child can be removed and into a more loving home and the child can get help earlier in life rather than later. In the long run that it will be better for the child,