5 Things you probably don't know about kids in Foster Care.

1.) Many children in foster care suffer from PTSD almost 2 times the rate of war veterans.

PTSD can cause the child to be on edge and have very severe anxiety. PTSD also can be accompanied by night terrors, anger outbursts and many more symptoms. Children have to be put through many long hours of testing to diagnosed and all children must be tested. ‎Thursday, ‎September ‎29, ‎2016

2.) Almost half of all foster children are placed in not relative foster homes.

8% are in institutions, 7% are in group homes and only 4% are with pre-adoptive families.

3.) Foster teens and young adults are more likely to suffer from serious mental illnesses.

They are more likely to be hospitalized for attempting suicide or for other serious mental disorders.

4.) Many Children get placed in up to 8 different homes per year.

Foster Parents have the right to ask the case worker for the child to be removed from the house at anytime for any reason and the case worker must obey their wishes. Children live in constant fear everyday of "messing up" or making their foster parents not want them. They will silently take any abuse just so they won't be placed into another house or group home.

5.) Privatized Foster Homes.

14 states have some level of Privatization and several others are considering this. Cases of abuse scatter through the files of Californias privatized foster care system. Children that are beat, whipped and tramatized. The privatization is supposed to serve children better and also way less expensive. Children living in homes controlled by private agencies were about one third more likely to be victims of very serious physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. The money that goes into a private foster care agency is about 4 million per year. Unfortunely this introduced people to spend as little as possible and pack these homes with as many kids as possible. In California alone they granted waviers to at least 5,300 people convicted of crimes. In some of these cases, people with these waviers severaly abused and even killed these children.