FOSTER CARE

What is foster care and what are orphanages?

Foster care is a way for countries to provide housing and help for abandoned children or children with inadequate parents. The foster care system's goal is to help make a better life for these children, but unfortunately some children still suffer continual abuse or neglect. Foster care typically works with children whose parents have been abusive or unable to provide for the child. Orphanages take in more children whose parents have died and the kids have not been taken in, or parents who have dropped off their kids because they are unable to provide for them typically because of financials. Romanian orphanages have been one of the biggest studies and one of the most shocking realizations of how traumatic and detrimental neglect and abuse to abandoned kids can be to the brain. Romanian orphanages showed how so many children suffering extreme neglect can go unnoticed in a system and place that is supposed to care for them. The orphanages show the importance of watching over the children and protecting the children who are unable to do anything for themselves. There is so much importance in helping children in their most important and constructive years. Children so young are at the stage in their lives where they soak up everything in their surroundings. If children are unable to get a childhood that fuels their growing brain, they will suffer further complications as they grow and become older.