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Angry Foster Child

The foster kid was angry as all get out Everyone was against him; he wanted to shout He ran from the teacher, the principal and me We saw him climb the school as far up as we could see What’s going on? I asked the other two He hates his life, he is sad, sore and blue. He has had six foster homes in four years they said. He told us he hates his life, he wants to be dead. We called security, they ran up to talk. It took them hours, and we all had to gawk. He is a foster kid, lost in a system which has lost its mind. He was in one home where he was loved, the people were kind. That mom and dad wanted to adopt him and stated so. But within two weeks, the foster system moved him to Idaho A state where he knew no one, and felt completely alone. He is a foster kid, an unwanted, a boy without a home.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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Date: 5/21/2021 9:38:00 AM
So sad. This sort of thing happens much too often. I once had the funeral service for a "throw-away" child who committed suicide. What terrible things we adults sometimes do to a child under the guise of taking care of him/her.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/22/2021 3:39:00 AM
It is horrible what the systems do to children, often because the selfish parents who did not want to be parents will not sign and release their children.

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