Topic: Foster care brings more harm than good
Foster homes provide children with a community where they can talk, listen, cry, and laugh with other people who care about them
foster kids frequently suffer from depression and turn to drugs later on in life
foster parents and the children they keep grow to love each other, then they are taken away which hurts the children
foster parents are in many cases taking in these children to collect on government payouts and create very toxic environments through neglect and abuse.
Foster parents are incentivized to give as little as possible to the children in their care because they get a flat rate for each child, so spending on them reduces the parent's profit.
foster parents are not often screened appropriately. some are in it for the money. often the children are placed in an unsuitable environment.
Foster parents are statistically very unlikely to actually adopt the children they foster, meaning foster care makes it more difficult for children to find permanent parents and homes.
Foster parents are well-intentioned, the harms caused are ones that can easily be fixed by giving them access to more information and support from social workers.
foster parents can provide a loving home that the child requires.
foster parents can take advantage of children, and sometimes they volunteer just to get a paycheck.
foster parents don't always get the proper training in how to deal with children
foster parents give the kid a better chance at a normal life than the kid's biological parents could ever have given him.
foster parents may not be properly vetted to insure children will not be abused
foster parents take in children just to get the money that the government gives them, which they use for themselves and not for the kids that they are supposed to be helping.
foster parents welcome these children that are often in need of a family surrounding
Frequent change in foster placement contribute to mental health problems and poor educational achievement
government Child "Protection" bureaucracies abused and harmed far more children than parents ever did
human trafficking has been tracked back to officials and organizations in the child protection services
I disagree that foster care brings more harm than good because there are many genuine foster home or foster parents that are genuinely wants to take these orphans children and treat them as their own
i don't think foster care does more harm because the system makes sure they find loving parents for these children to grow up with.   sometimes the real parents are abusive and neglectful towards their kids.
i think foster care can bring more good than hard sometimes because the children are loved and taken better care of than if were with their natural parents.
i think that foster care brings more harm than good depend the type of person
if a child has no one, having a foster family opens the door for a possibly life-changing benefit to them.  if someone has enough love to take them in, they should be applauded.
if a child is placed in a home where they are abused it can be very bad.