If regular families were checked as foster care is, you would see worse figures.
Myself, I would have rather have taken my chances in foster care
than the family I grew up in.
And as a former foster parent, don't judge—— These kids come to you so damaged that normal going to the ER once a week, dealing with broken furniture or having to call the police today because you've got a 15 y/o teen hell-bent on being with her 29 year old BF that she consistently runs away from school-— her goal to get pregnant so she could ‘be with him forever’.
I resent intensely all foster parents being painted as villains when then majority that I know and have met are people who believe they really can make a difference in the kids lives. Heroic is an understatement of what these folks routinely do....
The issue is, when you finally get them, their ‘real’ parents have done such a number on them, your greatest hope is that you can keep them out of prison or from killing a sibling.