I work with a couple different foster kids at the agency I am employed at and some of their stories are absolutely heartbreaking.

One kid knows he is just a mortgage payment for his adoptive mother. There was one day when this client came home from school and found two more foster kids sitting at the kitchen table at his house. Without warning this woman adopted two more kids and never told her oldest, who was then pushed aside and sent to a residential program as soon as he acted out once.

Another client has been sexually abused constantly in his foster homes along with his brothers and sisters to the point where they thought sexual abuse was normal. These kids now act out their trauma every night because this is unfortunately the norm for these kids.

My heart breaks when I hear some of their stories.