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.
As time goes by, the prospects for landing in safe, loving, permanent homes grow dimmer for foster youth. Many will simply âage outâ of the system when they turn 18, without a family and without the skills to make it on their own. In 2015, more than 20,000 young people â whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes â aged out of foster care, simply because they were too old to remain. In 2015, of the 428,000 children in foster care, more than 17,000 had case goals of emancipation, or aging out after leaving foster care without a permanent family.