Throwaway Kids
Broken foster care system sends more kids to prison than to college!
This recent investigative article by the Kansas City Star reveals why our broken foster care system sends more kids to prison than to college. Please read the entire article, but it beings with the following:
“He still has the last name of a woman who adopted him in grade school — then gave him back.
From the time he was 3 until he turned 14, Dominic Williamson was bounced to 80 different foster homes. When he turned 18, he found 
himself alone and homeless, and resorting to a life of crime.
Now, at 20, he has a home more permanent than any he’s ever known.
The Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Kansas.
“I had plans for the future and I kind of ruined it,” he said from prison, where he’s one year into an eight-year sentence. “But how could I be a good kid with all the horrible things happening?”
In the American foster care narrative, prison is where the story leads for many kids like Williamson.” Continue Reading
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