Foster Care

Kids in foster care are a hidden minority.

They are a hidden minority among dominant people-groups

and they are a hidden minority among recognizable minorities.

Per the internet, some 600,000 US kids hit the Faster Care system each year

with about 390,000 in-place children each year.

I call them 'kids in foster care', not 'foster kids'.

The term 'foster kids' implies a blame on the kids.

Few kids are there by their own doing.

I grew up in rural Iowa and our neighbors, who lived 1/2 mile to the north,

did foster care for girls. When we were younger, we were play-chums.

One sad fact seems to be that ethnic minorities

have a higher percentage of kids in foster care than white people.

Kids in foster care are functionally fatherless.

Kids in foster care are functionally motherless.

Those kids need to be in foster care because their families have failed them so pitifully.

Some kids are in foster care unnecessarily, via official misjudgments and some prejudices.

More below...

fatherless kids in foster care

While I have a section here devoted to fatherlessness,

I want to put a laser-focus on fatherlessness as a factor in foster care.

Think of how little foster care would be needed - if biodads fulfilled their duties.

And a lot of mothers wouldn't fail - if the fathers were there, doing their daddy-duties.

So...

and there is a special section about foster care on the FatherlessMale.com website.