Analysis Of Growing Up In The Care Of Strangers

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This is a narrative about how a mother thought what was best for her child was to put that child in a state of uncertainty. At age 15 I was already in my 20th foster home. My whole life all I knew was suffering and anguish. At a young age, I was mistreated by my mother’s boyfriend and I have also witnessed the beatings of the women in my family. There were no end to the torment I had witnessed .But I am so grateful that I had found a foster home where all I knew was affection. I loved being with this foster family. I had my very first birthday at age 15 with my foster family. Before that it was just a day of abuse and neglect. There was no cake on those days. There was no birthday songs just loud piercing sounds of a metal rod cracking my spine. I was with my foster family for three and a half years. The mother was more affectionate than the mother figure I grew up with. I began to make friends at school. My friends were the kinds of kids that other people considered …show more content…

That one day you can be fine in your foster home to be extract with no explanation at all. Here’s a quote from the article “Growing Up in the Care of Strangers”. An article about foster children growing up in foster care. Written by John R. Seita and Wain K. Brown. Wain Brown states “It seemed like the whole world was against me, and at such a young age, I was too immature to make heads or tails of it.” She also goes on to say “My emotions and behaviors increasingly reflected the turmoil that occupied my troubled mind.”(Brown & Seita, I) Elizabeth Sutherland also supports this conflict by saying “handed us over to her like three unwanted kittens and then disappeared forever” (Brown & Seita, 115). She also states “To this day, I still do not understand the insensitive policies of a foster care system that pulls siblings apart”(Brown & Seita,

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