Foster System Quotes

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I've kind of grown up knowing about it myself.

One of the things we try to do on 'The Fosters' is shine a light on the problems and the people that get pushed to the periphery. From the very beginning of the show, when we told people we were putting foster care at the center of a TV show, even the people who work in the system were afraid.

I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care program, and I also have a sister who joined my family through a faith-based organization.

I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'