Prewriting Essay 4

The main purpose I want my essay to accomplish is to promote foster parenting. Throughout high school, I had numerous foster siblings come in and out of my home. I saw their pain and struggle and had difficulty imagining the situations they came from. However, I know that the support and love given to them from my family really helped not only them, but me as well, to see more to life. They went through a lot of changes while living at my house and I hope that they are only better off from those changes. Most of them were abandoned and or abused by their biological parents or relatives. It's hard to live a normal life after once being subjected to such an unjust childhood. However, I think that the presence of foster families really helps this kids to accept those old situations and know that they never have to face that again. I will most likely focus on two foster siblings of mine: Summer and Charlie, who came from terrible places, but whose futures are looking brighter. They have changed a lot over the few years of entering and leaving my house and their stories will stick with me forever. As for statistics, I want to focus on the repercussions of the feelings of abandonment foster kids face. Also, I want to bring about the statistics of how many foster children are not living in a home with a family. Hopefully I can find some scholarly articles focusing on the psychology of this issue as well as concrete statistics of the future careers and family life of these children.