How Would You Feel?

Suicide Among Youth Within Residential Group Facilities and Single Family Foster Homes

Recent years, researchers admit high rates of suicides among youth within the foster care system. Researchers explain that suicides are caused by social and emotional conditions rather than a mental disease. Furthermore, it is often associated with hundreds of suicides and suicide attempts. “Researchers discovered attention problems and aggressive or delinquent behavior in 40 per cent of children aged five to 17 who were in home-based foster care, up to eight times more than in the general school-age population” (Gough 2007)....more...

How would you feel if someone snatched you from the family you love and locked you up for no reason, only to be beaten and overmedicated with mind altering, suicidal-side-effect psychotropic medications that you will never see your family again and will grow up to face the possibility of homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration with daily induced sessions of individual therapy? 

Please keep in mind that the drugs and counseling noted above is all funded through Targeted Case Management, Medicaid.

The best part of this article is what is not included, and that is major universities do not include such data in its research and publications...Cornell.  

Wouldn't want to bite the hand that feeds you.