Reflective Essay: Foster Care In The United States

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At age 3, I was placed into foster care because my parents didn’t keep watch of me one night. It was a hot summer evening and I wanted to ride my bike across dead man's curve, the police stopped me and asked me would I like a ride I shook my head no and headed home. They followed me, saw our house and how we were living, nasty and foul. The very next day the social workers came to take me and my 4 other brothers away. Since the age of 5, I’ve been told that I was mature for my age. I had to grow up fast even though I was young, foster care does that to you. Only one of my brothers and I got placed back with our birth mother. The hardest thing for me as a kid is being 7 years old and waking up on christmas with no present in sight, waking up …show more content…
I never lived in a house more than 6 months, I was scared to get comfortable. By the age of 12, I was right back in the system. Honestly I wish I never got placed out of the system, when I did because foster care is the best thing that ever happen to me. I found a home that really cared for me and loved me like one of their own. I would love to find homes like this for children that feel lost and alone, because nobody is alone. What I learned life is an obstacle that you have to learn to go with the flow because you never know what's going to happen. Bouncing from foster home to foster home made me a strong independent person. I learned how to manage money and create a life that I could count on instead of bouncing around. I relied on nobody but myself and I trusted nobody but myself. I make my struggle look easy but really it’s the hardest thing ever and I still feel like something is missing. I realized the only way out is a education, I am going to be the first to graduate and I will be the first to go to college. I wasn’t going to be like my brothers and dwell on the past I wanted to move on from the past and create a
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