This challenge may seem big and heavy and difficult to resolve – and it is – but that doesn't mean it should not be on everyone's minds all the time. We need better resources for families who're dealing with poverty and addiction. We need better assurances that homes are secure. We need better take care of youth who're place into foster care. More than that, people themselves are also afraid of the foster child stigma, or they're terrified of getting too mounted on a young child they will only care for temporarily, as Lamberson points out. But is certainly not the point? Foster youth need that attachment and care. If one adult can provide stability, compassion, patience, and the ability to make space for grief, that individual can change children's life. Although my pain was extreme, I still had me met by my foster families and that i was asked to prosper in school. Its not all foster child is really lucky – particularly when they're moved from home by at this type of young age. But these resources must be taught and enforced. If we continue neglecting the huge subset of the population, we will teach our kids that are not worth fighting for. This problem needs a full-on revolution. Fortunately for me, Used to do eventually look for a safe, lasting foster home. I lived with them in excess of three years – before and thru my second go-around of 10th grade and through 11th and 12th grades. I had been looked after. And yet, the trauma of getting to suddenly fold myself right into a new life left a scar I've yet to heal from.
Everything else makes the news; foster youth's stories should, too.
Beyond helping families stay together and finding loving homes for kids, trauma reduction and resources must be the main thing on the brain, too.
