The foster care system intends to place children in homes where they will stay until they can find permanent residence with a family adoptive. Unfortunately, this is often not the case for children placed in privatized homes and they end up bouncing from house to house until they eventually fall out of the system, forced into adulthood without ties. permanent family. Over the past decade, the number of adolescents exiting the system without permanent families has increased from 19,000 to 23,000 per year. These adolescents come into the world without emotional, relational or financial support and therefore are at greater risk of poverty as well as poor academic performance. This leads many of these teens to rely on government benefits during their adult lives, placing a greater burden on taxpayers. The National Council on Adoption says the 29,000 teens who left the system in 2007 will cost more than $1 billion a year in public assistance and support. These aging adolescents are also at greater risk of worrying behaviors, such as: creating discipline problems at school, dropping out of school, becoming unemployed and homeless, becoming teenage parents, abusing alcohol and drugs and commit crimes. The privatized system does not take into account the best interests of children and