#foster children

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

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As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

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State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

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Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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