Johnson, Carolyn. "Impact Newsletter: Growing Up in Foster Care: Carolyn's Story." Impact Newsletter: Growing Up in Foster Care: Carolyn's Story. Carolyn Johnson, 2006. Web. 28 May 2014.
Growing Up in Foster Care: Carolyn's Story
"My childhood was spent in the foster care system. The first time I went into foster care I was seven years old. Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I was in over seven foster care and group home placements. As I look back at those years, it feels like a mixture of good and bad experiences."
Carolyn Johnson was in and out of foster homes just like Astrid was, she was abused, both sexually and physically. Johnson was put into a foster home, separated from her younger brother and baby sister, taken from her mother with out warning. No one told Carolyn why her she had to be put into foster care. Hope came, just like Astrids' did with Claire. At the age of 14, a neighborhood boy took advantage of young Johnson. She became a mother at the age of 14. Yvonne was also a teenager when she became pregnant in the foster home. They both had to give up their children, later on Carolyn was older got to see her son. She seen how happy he was with his new family and she knew that she did not want to take that away from him, like hers was. She is now happily married with four children and lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
University, Princeton. " - The Future of Children -." Princeton University. Trustees of Princeton University © 2014, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 May 2014.
"Children do best when they are living in a safe, stable and a nurturing family."
About 300,000 of children are abused and being neglected from their parents every year, so they are moved from their homes and placed in foster care. But not every child gets lucky. A 19 year old boy, Brian Jackson, a adopted foster youth, weighed 45 pounds. He was found going through the garbage to find food for himself because him and his brothers were being starved by their adopted parents, just like Astrid. There was a woman named Amelia who did foster care for children. Astrid got sent to Amelia's foster care and there were 3 other girls that were there too. Amelia would lock the fridge and only give them food at supper. When the girls would make supper, they would steal a stick of butter out of the fridge or whatever they could find and share it with all the girls. Astrid would also dig into the garbage at school to get food because she was starved and Amelia wouldn't give her lunch money. Children don't always get lucky when they go to foster homes.
Growing Up in Foster Care: Carolyn's Story
"My childhood was spent in the foster care system. The first time I went into foster care I was seven years old. Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I was in over seven foster care and group home placements. As I look back at those years, it feels like a mixture of good and bad experiences."
Carolyn Johnson was in and out of foster homes just like Astrid was, she was abused, both sexually and physically. Johnson was put into a foster home, separated from her younger brother and baby sister, taken from her mother with out warning. No one told Carolyn why her she had to be put into foster care. Hope came, just like Astrids' did with Claire. At the age of 14, a neighborhood boy took advantage of young Johnson. She became a mother at the age of 14. Yvonne was also a teenager when she became pregnant in the foster home. They both had to give up their children, later on Carolyn was older got to see her son. She seen how happy he was with his new family and she knew that she did not want to take that away from him, like hers was. She is now happily married with four children and lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
University, Princeton. " - The Future of Children -." Princeton University. Trustees of Princeton University © 2014, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 May 2014.
"Children do best when they are living in a safe, stable and a nurturing family."
About 300,000 of children are abused and being neglected from their parents every year, so they are moved from their homes and placed in foster care. But not every child gets lucky. A 19 year old boy, Brian Jackson, a adopted foster youth, weighed 45 pounds. He was found going through the garbage to find food for himself because him and his brothers were being starved by their adopted parents, just like Astrid. There was a woman named Amelia who did foster care for children. Astrid got sent to Amelia's foster care and there were 3 other girls that were there too. Amelia would lock the fridge and only give them food at supper. When the girls would make supper, they would steal a stick of butter out of the fridge or whatever they could find and share it with all the girls. Astrid would also dig into the garbage at school to get food because she was starved and Amelia wouldn't give her lunch money. Children don't always get lucky when they go to foster homes.