Foster Kid Jokes

These foster kid jokes have been circulating underground for the past few years. Regularly at national child welfare events, where foster youth and young alumni assemble, these jokes have become a tradition of sorts. Some of the jokes are shocking, some are tragic, but theyve all been created by youth who lived them. Some foster youth view it as a way to use humor to deal with the past. Others feel the jokes unveil a universal bond between people who have
shared the experience of life in foster care. These jokes are shared with you today to raise awareness about the issues faced by young people in foster care. One last note: Many of the jokes seem very hard on biological parents. That is not the intention. At FosterClub, we understand there are complex systemic problems leading to foster care, including extreme poverty, mental health, addiction, and more. The jokes simply illustrate "how things are" from a young person's point of view.


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http://groups.fosterclub.com/nfcm/article/day-1

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[thegaffergirls]

thanks .. sharing..

former oregon fosterkid...

thanks oregonfostermom at g mail dot com .

[delicatelilflower88]

this gave me goosebumps and made me cry!! its why ima foster momma! i was a foster kid

[areeves001]

love it

[100truckyou]

I was a foster kid. I miss the good ol' days......wait....there was no good days. Jk I left care February 2011!!!! Woot woot!!!

[beclynne]

I LOVE it!!! ~RR (Oregon State FFCA; aged out of the system in 1995)

[natyntiffy]

You might be a foster kid if your "parents" bought you over seas then brought you to the USA & forged paperwork & bypassed the law, then told you you were adopted & decided they didn't want to deal with the mess of paperwork they created and handed you over to DCF & hoped it would all go away then you ended up with no citizenship, no way to get it & became stuck in the shithole that is the American foster care system until you aged out & then THEY hoped it would all go away :take a deep breath:

[kimtermini]

I was in foster care for 8 years and aged out of the system. I graduated from a 4 year institution, have a good job, am applying to graduate school for Cognitive Psychology, and am working toward my black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. These jokes are great. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this and that people can have a sense of humor about it :) We didn't get to laugh enough as kids, but we can now!

[Argenteconomie]

You might be a foster kid if the government spent about a million bucks on you, but you never got a penny out of it. The CPS and foster care system in america= a multi-billion dollar fraud.

[Patism66]

foster kids are the ultimate victims of child welfare fraud.

[peter1miler]

I was a foster child for 10 years.