I am VERY ambivalent about fostering.
If you love kids, adopt them, don’t warehouse them for profit.
The whole foster system is a drain — what was so bad about orphanages? They have Boys’ homes and the like that can take care of kids.
But some do a good job at it and actually care for kids.
As I said — ambivalence.
I understand what you are saying, but I bet the adoption system makes it impossible sometimes. And sometimes if parents are in the picture.
Many of the children in the foster system are not adoptable. Not that there are people who do not want to adopt them but for whatever reason, including that the parents of record can not be located.
They have Boys’ homes and the like that can take care of kids.
Not any more. There are very few orphanages left and any organizations that are left are for "troubled youth". The kind of child that is too dangerous to be placed in foster care.
“If you love kids, adopt them...”
I understand how you feel ambivalent; however, the primary goal of Child Protective Services is to get the kids back to the parents. I think many of the kids are fostered till they max out because the parent won’t sign the waiver to allow them to be adopted. I’ve heard good stories about foster parents and I’ve heard horror stories as well. Unfortunately for the little ones, their true welfare (IMHO) isn’t considered entirely.. they are seen as “property”.