PREMISE:
Privatized Foster Care:
Private agencies that place children in homes for a profit.
There are pros and cons to every system and the foster care system is broken but privatized foster care is not the answer. It's a dangerous way to "shake things up". Sure when something bad happens there's finally someone to take responsibility and be accountable, there's a CEO. But the more kids these companies place with foster families the more money they make. They aren't picky about who they place these kids with and they don't have to be. They operate outside of the government system and are not modulated by welfare but by money.
I'd experienced the broken foster system first hand. Overall there were more bad memories than good. Out of the 10 homes I had been in, there was only one where I felt truly safe. That was when I lived with a woman named Florence. Until then I didn't know good foster homes existed. She treated me like her own child and even talked about adopting me. But then a disease made her "unfit" to be a foster parent and I was put back into the system, into a group home for mislead, delinquent youth. I'd never experienced anything worse than sharing a house with 14 other kids. It was comparable to an orphanage. But then I experienced privatized foster care with the Ryan's.
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Silver Lining
RomanceAddison Evans was a teenage girl bounced around from home to home, beat down by the foster system and one of the "lucky" teens put in a privatized foster home. Heath Wayland didn't have the best life, but what lead him to foster care was a...
