A national survey in 2007 revealed that 45% of the American population thinks children are in foster care due to their own delinquency (AdopTalk, Fall, 2009).

So let’s set the record straight.

It not the fault of the children that their parents and care-givers are too lost in their own dysfunction to care for them. It is not their fault that there is no food, no heat, and no one to take them to school. It’s not their fault when their parents don’t come home at night.

It’s not the fault of older siblings that they are left to raise the babies. It’s not their fault that they have been beaten, pinched, kicked, burned and used.

Having their innocence stripped away from them before they lose their baby teeth is not their fault.

The children are not to blame that family holidays become nightmares of substance abuse and that violence is a daily occurence.

Hello out there – They are children!

It is not their fault.



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