Faith DesNoyer

Life as a Foster Child

Life as a foster child is hard some people just don't understand our life stories. Growing up people would always ask "where is your mommy and daddy" I would shut down because I knew from my heart that my daddy left mes and my brothers with our mommy, she really didn't take of our needs at all. I was six years old when my grandpa decided to call Child Protective Service (CPS) my two younger brothers and I went to foster care because our grandpa couldn't take care of us anymore due to his health problems, he wanted us to have a better life / future. As years went by I stopped visiting my brothers and my mother, but while in foster care some foster parents do not care about the child so they start beating the child as a way to be discipline but that never helps because they've been abused before by their own parents. As a young child you seem as though you don't have a voice to tell them to stop and/ or have the strength to fight back, at thirteen I was able to fight back from the abuse but at the time I was already adopted by then but she decided to put me back in the system and from then on I've been in foster care. I use to be in a group home that held right girls in Baltimore city life there wasn't as easy but I made it through til I was eighteen, from there I went to two foster home before my nineteen birthday. my first foster home was in Howard County, MD I had my own room in which I enjoyed til I found out that I had to move before it was Christmas because the lady's eldest son was coming home from jail and there wasn't an extra bedroom for me. I could have stayed but she didn't want him sleeping on the couch. My second foster home was in Owing Mills, MD I was supposed to be there temporary but decided to stay longer I was there for two years but before my twentieth birthday I had a right with my roommate over something stupid. I ended up leaving because I was going to be in a independent living program through the Department of Social Service before I started Community College, I'll be moving in a week or so which I'm happy about because it gives me a chance to be independent.