How are we damaged by an overly aggressive state? In Sally’s story, she was taken from her home, placed in foster care. The state said she was not cared for properly. Therefore, she was taken from her home, because she was from a large family, they were broken up into several different foster homes. Contact with her parents during the holidays was severed.
Level one: Physiological needs. Even if these basic needs were met, even if there was instability in her family, there is a change here. Let’s say these changes were for the better. She no longer missed meals. For example.
Level two: Safety: Even if she is now in a safer home, it is a change. What she knew was ripped from her without explanation. Right or wrong, there is damage in this area.
Level three: Love needs. Here, she was ripped from her family, siblings and parent, placed in an unknown environment as an outsider, the stability of what she knew was gone, routine changes, for better or for worse, it is a change.
Level four: Esteem needs: Even if there is no knowledge of this at school and her pears never find out that she was taken from her family, she knows. Something is wrong, A look at how foster care can damage our aspects of life. I mention this in the hopes that someone will improve the system.
1) Physical: Physically, Again, many psychological injuries show up in our bodies in physical ways: ulcers, stress, eating habits, etc.
2) Emotional: routine and family is lost, the emotions are severely damaged. Loneliness cannot be filled by new/temporary parents.
3) Psychological: as with any trauma, the effects of losing one’s parents, moving into a new surroundings, being taken from friends and family, transported by strangers to places unknown, is devastating. is depends on the amount of abuse that was received hi
4) Cognitive: Again there is stress, there is a violation which reduces cognitive skills.
5) Spiritual: We question God’s care for us and his power to protect.
6) Sexual: if there is no assault, this should remain undamaged, yet assault is possible.
7) Financial: The parents are thrown into a long drown out legal battle at great expense.
8) Relational: How can we trust? Friends and family are gone. Siblings are gone.
9) Social: The social stability is broken. Trust is broken.
10) Environmental: How does this differ from kidnapping?
A society where kidnapping happens is unsafe and untrusting. Even the best of intentions causes severe, lifelong damage to children taken from their family. This is part of the damage caused by abruptly taking children from their family and placing them in foster care. Keep in mind that in the case of the t-shirt, “My father raped me from the ages of two to nine:” Well, dad should be taken out and shot. I know of other instances where sexual abuse was known and the girl was left in that situation. I’m not here to say, “Right or wrong” I’m saying, “Damage.” The purpose of this book is to help you grow Beyond Recovery.
Explore Risk Factors