Foster Care
... This includes depriving the child of the basic needs such as food, shelter and medical care. ... The Department of Social Service (DSS) aims at providing safe homes and compassionate foster parents or orphanages for children who are removed from their home due to unsafe and dangerous living conditions. ... Placing children in foster homes or orphanages is an alternative if a close relative is unable to take the children. There are some cases where a children are placed in foster homes or orphanages and the abuse or neglect progresses. Some foster homes or orphanages are taking children into their home for their own benefit and use the child welfare system as a paycheck. Take for instance, the family who took four boys into their home and DSS paid them $30,000 in the year of 2003 to care for them. ... Even though the state paid this couple money to take care of these boys, they did not give them the proper care they deserved. ... Once he was taken from his mother and placed in a foster home he gained the courage to survive and made a promise to him-self that he would never live that way again. ... Some children that are taken away from their abused or neglected homes and placed in an orphanage or foster care, may have a better chance in life than staying at home.