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Many children are in foster care. There is a high volume of children who stay in foster care for a long period of time and sometimes "age out". Aging out is when the minor turns 18years of age and is still in foster care. The social justice issue is that these children have a higer chance of going to orison, human trafficking and pregnancy. We need to do something as a society to help these children achieve something in there life. There are so many children who still get abused in the foster system as well. What needs to be done to prevent this from happening? More home visits to foster homes, better screening, and maybe even just a all around better system.

This site shows statistics pertaining to children in foster care in 2015. The statistics include length of stay, outcome, placement settings, gender, age, and other information. The information was gathered from the Federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System.

The website provides sickening details on the hundreds or thousands of children in Foster Care as of 2015. It lists everything from age, to ethnicity, to length of stay in foster care. These eye opening facts bring on a new perspective.

An astounding 18,000 kids are in the Arizona foster care system between foster homes, group homes, and shelters. Donating time to foster care organizations can be just as valuable as any donations that can be contributed whether it be financial or material. You can also take a step further and change a child's life by becoming a foster parent or adopting.

Children in foster care and the importance of children's safety and well-being during the process. Goes over laws and regulations set in place for adoption and fostering processes. Emphasis on child safety with in the system and once out.

This is good to ear. That there are people who care about the health and care of orphans.

Here is an article that gives examples on how you can help the children in foster care. There are many options from donating money and volunteering to play with the child are just a couple of examples. Some people want to help but don't know how to. This article will make it clearer for those who would like to help and gives you different options as well. Please look at this article and see if you can help.

With over 19,000 children in the foster care system and an overwhelmed agency, this article talks about ways you can help with the foster care crisis that is ongoing in Arizona.

This article speaks about the costs communities and taxpayers spend on aging out foster youths that do not receive extended care after they turn 18.

Foster parents are scared to spank their children because some people might look at it as abuse. Will spank adopted children even if they were once abused. Idea is starting a huge fight.

Children who are in the foster care system face more hardships than children who are not. Some of the hardships foster kids face are lack of stability, abuse (both physical and mental), neglect, etc. When placed in foster homes, most of the time kids will face some sort of hardship, unless they are lucky.

In this report it talks about foster kids and what happens to them after they turn 18. While some states, a small handful, have programs for the kids others do not. It spoke about kids turning 18 then getting dropped off at homeless shelters. I hope in the near future there will be a change for these kids. They crime rate, young parent rate and homeless rates are just not acceptable. Please read and see how you can help in you community.

There was a group home next door to my home for years. These kids had no support even when they were in the system. They were often locked out of the home when the state workers needed to go somewhere. My family and I ended up being family for many of these children. One afternoon, Charles who lived in the group home, rang our doorbell. I came out and he was yellow and falling over. I asked him where are the workers. He let me know they had locked them out again. I put him in my car and rushed him to the hospital. I knew it was bad when the emergency room nurses took him immediately. The staff at the group home had been giving him the wrong medication and he lost most of his liver. Charles calls me mom. His children call me Grandma. A lot of the kids that were living in the home, call me mom. I refer to them as one of my kids. The best way to take care of these children is to invite them into your heart, lives and family before and after they turn 18. Demonstrate the way to success by showing them love.

Addresses kids aging out of the foster system and not being prepared. Also, it give some ideas on how this process can be improved.

This site questions the reailty of what we think personal freedom is. It is a speec from David Foster that was given at a graduation.

In 1970 hispanics made up 17% of Arizona residents, now they make up more than 30%. Being that is percentage dramatically increased, Senator Russell Pearce campaigned on strictor immigration policies. Which then lead to Republican Govenor Jan Brewer to sign SB1070 , that basically fosters a culture for racial profiling, but others say its necessary to crack down on illegal immigrants in the United States.

Immigration enforcements have separated over 25 percent of families because of their parents not having legal documentation. The immigration reform have a significant impact on thousands of America's most vulnerable children. Children are being placed in the foster care system because of deportation.

This website looks at gay rights to adopt. Because adoption is such a large topic, I think this is unique since it looks at gay and lesbian rights. The site outlines the issue and discusses each side.

Not all states give homosexual couples the same adoption rights as heterosexual couples. There is no statistical data or research to show why gay parents would be any different than straight parents.

Part 2: Search engine used: http://www.metacrawler.com/ URL: http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/ig/Lesbian-and-Gay-Rights-101/Gay-Adoption-Rights.htm Original: 1. "A child is better off with one father and one mother." Even if this claim were true (and there's no evidence that it is), it would be irrelevant. States allow adoption by individuals, and not just by married couples, precisely because they recognize that any healthy, stable family environment is a better option than the foster care system. Paraphrase: "A child is better off with one mom and one dad." There is no evidence that this statement is true, however providing evidence would not make it any more relevant. States not only allow married couples to adopt, but single parents too. This has something to do with recognizing that any environment that is healthy and stable is a more realistic option than foster care.

Son put in foster care after calling 911, saying his dad had gone too far. The article is about a dad who normally uses taking away privileges, decided to use a more severe punishment due to repeated lying, got his son taken away. The child still resides in CPS care even after several months of hearings.

Sam Carr exposes the harsh reality of porn. How the human mind can get affected. Glamorizing porn can mess up a relationship.

Explains what adoption is, gives information. Provides news and future prospective of adoption in America and elsewhere.

Should single people to allowed to adopt? This website fights for the equality of unmarried people and it discusses whether or not unmarried people should deserve more equal opportunity of being able to adopt a child. it explains first that there are so many children waiting to be adopted. Then the website also talks about how unmarried people actually want to adopt. 

Being married should not have any precedence over those who are not. Love is a universal concept that everyone has to offer. Women no longer need a man to provide for them, so why should one have to be married to love and care for a child? Especially if the willing parent has no issue providing the means to support the child. It is better than just leaving the child in a system that gives them no actual emotional support, which only contributes to abandonment and self-worth issues.

Personally I think anyone who is willing to tell themselves that they want to take in a child that is not born from their blood line and care for that child as if they are then all power to them, there are too many children out there that don't have homes and are put in the system until they age out and I think equality for single people is the right thing to do.

Gay marriage is strongly supported by the AAP. Studies how that children are doing just fine being raised by gay and lesbian couples. It entails that gay marriage structures family.