“I cannot believe he was abused in a foster home”.
I am afraid that is where you and I will have to agree to disagree. I’ve known two and the foster parents viewed the kids as “cash” cows. One family had the kids out in a field every day during the summer. (weeding, planting, etc). By everyday.. I mean the hottest part of the day and for 4-5 hours straight. The kids wore clothes that never fit and were as skinny as rails. The other family purchased Christmas gifts for their bio child. The two foster kids didn’t receive as much as a darn orange. My one friend actually was told about it and went out Christmas day and bought the kids gifts. Bless the good foster families that do this and try to make life a bit better for these throw away kids. Unfortunately, there are other people who see a monthly check and aren’t good people.
Remember the two gay guys allowed to adopt something like three little children and who left one to die in a hot car while one of them was smoking pot?! The one guy looked like Rosie O’Donnell on crack!
I know there are very good foster parents but there are examples in the newspapers all the time of bad ones.
I have seen this happen up close and personal.
“Cash for kids” foster families should be rooted out of the system, they are destructive to the children and give good FF’s a bad rep.
Interesting - although the foster parents I knew over the years certainly must have enjoyed the extra income, they loved and cared for the kids. They were an opposite of all you describe. One was a farm family in Indiana and they had several of their own plus foster kids younger than teen, and you wouldn’t know theirs from the foster ones. And yes they did work in the yard and barn - all did. One foster family in my neighborhood adopted them after a couple years. When I policed for while, again years ago, I did run into kids treated as you describe, but they were always biological children being mistreated. I don’t think they had fostering programs in those days.