Florida Has Failed It's Foster Care Children Poem by James McLain

Each year, over 22,000 children enter Florida's foster care system.
The majority of these children have at least one chronic medical condition.
Florida's foster care children experience four times the emotional problems as their counter part's.
Florida's foster care children average three different placements,
including my daughter and nearly half do not return to live with their biological parent's.
Florida's foster care children repeat a school grade twice as often as other students, like my daughter.
Florida's foster care children score fifteen to twenty percent, below other children on statewide tests.
Resulting in serious self-esteem issue's.
More than thirty seven percent of Florida's foster care youth drop out of high school, compared to sixteen percent of Florida's other children.
By the age of Eighteen,
sixty one percent of Florida's foster care children are without job experience, this is to guarantee that the black foster care children are sent to Florida's prison's.
Within 18 months of aging out of the system, up to 50% of Florida's foster care youth become homeless.
Having been taken away from her mother four times and currently still is my daughter was never allowed to live with her father.
While she travelled to Taylor Correctional Institution, one of seventy
prison's in Florida,
to pick up a sexual predator and move him into what was once my home, just last week.
She refers to our daughter as a young healthy woman, whom turned thirteen year's of age, just last April.