Children Foster Parents

One of the biggest struggles for parents in the United States is raising children. Parents all have certain ways in how they raise their children that other people may not approve of. Some parents are involved in the daily activities and contribute everything they possibly can to make their children successful in life. On the other hand, there are parents that only care about themselves and neglect their children. According to dss.cahwnet.gov in the United States of America there is an organization called Child Protected Services (CPS). The CPS job is to find parents that are neglecting their children and take them away from these unstable parents and put them in foster care, but people fail to realize the negative affects putting children …show more content…
According to an article on pediatrics.aappublications.org, children that grow up in foster care have a high rate of chronic medical problems, educational handicaps, and severe emotional impairment. The dramatic experience of a child being taken away from their parents can cause long-term affects. For example, children that are taken away from their parents have a difficult time building a family relationship with their foster parents thus creating trust issues (everydaylife.globalpost.com). Children lacking the ability to trust others are unable to build relationships with other people. When they are unable to build relationships children become more isolated. Because of this, children will never be able to open up with others causing problems with friends. In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls writes how her father was a drunk and her mother only cared about herself. Through these hardships she builds a powerful relationship with her brother and sister encouraging each other and teaching them how to deal with life. Even though Jeanette grows up with parents that neglected her and her siblings, she grows up having a successful life. She was able to cope with her parent’s issues and uses them for strength to get through life. Having her brother and sister gave her the ability to build relationships with friends, and when there were problems she was able to go talk with her …show more content…
An article named Child Protection and Adult Crime was published in the university of Chicago, stating that children are two to three times more likely to turn to a life of crime being raised in the foster care system than their counterparts. Children tend to go in to a life of crime because they do not have the resources they need. Foster care children start stealing food so they can feed themselves. They steal clothing so they can dress themselves amongst other things. They try to justify their actions because of these circumstances. Children feel like it is ok to steal; thus building the foundation of a criminal mentality. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette and her sibling do steal things because her parents forced her but they were able to learn eventually it is wrong to steal. Jeanette Walls steals a watch from the jewelry shop she works at but returns the watch. The reason Jeanette returns the watch is because she knew it was wrong, and that her parents would notice that she was in possession of an expensive watch (Walls