The Repeated Cycle of Foster Care and Child Abuse

It is not uncommon to see foster children later becoming parents that end up losing their children to foster care. When children come into foster care after surviving years of abuse and continue surviving in foster care for the rest of childhood can start the cycle of abuse.

A young boy 8 years old was placed into foster care after he was admitted in a psychiatric hospital. He had placed a noose around his neck to end his own life after suffering ongoing sexual abuse which started at the age of 3 months old and continued until he was admitted into the hospital. This little boy’s only way out of the agonizing pain that he had endured his entire life was to end his life.

He was placed with his sister in a family placement, which came to an end for this boy, when he did what he had been taught for years. He became the predator instead of the victim, he molested his younger sister.

Due to the years of severe abuse that his father had suffered, this child spent the rest of his childhood bounced around the foster care system since his father continued the cycle of abuse by abusing his own son just as he the father was abused as a child (two juvenile institutions, five psychiatric hospitals, six group homes, four crisis residential centers, five juvenile detentions and one relative placement).

This boy grew into a young man that after years of counseling and therapy had not acted out sexually in years but still had problems controlling his feelings and anger. He was raised in the system without even the benefit of foster parents to give him love, hugs, attention, shown any emotions, and compassion.

This was a cycle of abuse that started so long ago with this boy’s grandfather, which continued through the generations. This boy’s mother also came from a long background of abuse.

He aged out of foster care and started a life on his own. He married a young woman with a newborn and before long they were expecting their first child together. This young father was happy, excited and scared to be a father. Before the couple could take their newborn home, the child welfare system stepped in and removed the newborn due to this young father’s troubling past. Sadly, neither one of these young people had the knowledge or ability, to care for a newborn or a young baby, so the court system decided to remove the newborn and young infant from their care.

The decision was based on this young man’s psychology report due to a number of mental disorders, his past history of abuse and that he is a registered sex offender.

Sadly, he has also lost his son to the system, so the cycle continued on to his son. The only good thing that could come out of this is that his son will be able to break the cycle of generations, by being given the opportunity to be adopted and raised without being abused. This young boy above (the infant’s father) was placed into care at the age of eight years old and had already endured years of abuse, that he was unable to overcome. The trauma that this young boy endured led to his multiply foster placements and aging out of the system.

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