Foster Care Problem: Solutions to the Foster Care Crisis – Pt. 2

While there are many serious issues surrounding the foster care problem, it is still a viable solution for the over 500,000 children in foster care homes. Yet one of the major challenges is the insufficiency of qualified homes for children to be placed in.

The experts discuss the three biggest issues impacting the foster care problem: as mentioned, lack of good homes, limited budgets the system works with, which in turn does not pay a care giver very much, and government ineffectiveness.

Children placed in homes often exhibit antisocial behaviors, low self-esteem, post traumatic stress disorders and depression.