It is the first thing anyone will read: if it fails to grip, the rest of the essay will have to be very good to retrieve the situation. At the very least it must be competent. Preferably, it should also be short -- if your introduction lasts much more than a third of a page, you have missed the point.
Foster Care. Foster care is one option for providing homes for children and youth up to 18 who can't live safely with their own parents or caregivers. Foster parents provide the day-to-day care for a child on behalf of a children's aid society. The government licenses and funds Ontarioâs foster care system.
The stark reality for youth who age out of foster care: 1  Over half of these youth lack a high school diploma and within two years, approximately 30 percent experience homelessness or incarceration and more than half of the young women will have children who also enter the foster care system, continuing the cycle.