Across America there are hundreds of thousands of children in foster care. These children in foster care have disproportionately high rates of physical, developmental, and mental health problems (Problems). Most of these problems are caused by a lack of attachment to the adoptive parents. Due to the lack of time in a new home, these children do not bond with their adoptive parents. Some adoptive parents are willing to keep the children as long as necessary, but others are selfish and only participate in the program for the money. This is an example of why the health of many children is often overlooked in foster care (Issues). Children who enter foster care due to abuse and neglect are entering an environment that is not the right kind of support. According to the Department of Family and Protective Services: "When children must be placed out of home and there is no appropriate non-custodial parent or relative willing and able to care for them and there are no close family friends to whom the court may grant temporary legal possession, the court will ask Child Protective Services (CPS) to place the child in a temporary foster care setting." To become a foster parent you must: be trained and verified by the CPS, you must be licensed by the Residential Child-Care Licensing (RCCL), and you must be verified by the RCCL. Most children in foster care have never had a stable environment, without which the child's brain lacks the sensitivity to participate in society (Problems). If a child does not know how to participate in society and grows up in an unstable family, he has very little chance of being able to support himself. Instead they will guide themselves along the p...... middle of the paper ......y Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Early Childhood Committee, 2000. 15 May 2011. Web.DFPS. “DFPS-Reliance”. DFPS - Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. 2011. May 20, 2011. Web.Guillaro, Lori. “Child Abuse Facts and Statistics.” Services of Cardinal McCloskey. McCloskey, 2011. May 7, 2011. Web.Kamentez, Kevin. “Facts about Child Abuse.” Baltimore, MD. Kevin Kamentez, January 19, 2011. May 6, 2011. Web.Magnuson, ed. “Child Abuse: The Ultimate Betrayal.” TIME for children. 05 September 1983:7. May 6, 2011. Web.Saison, Joanna. “Child abuse and neglect”. Child Abuse Help Guide. Robert Segal November 12, 2011. May 6, 2011. Web.'Sgroi, Suzanne. Sexual abuse intervention. New York, NY: Free, 1982. Print.Weidner, Steve. “Make children a priority.” Child abuse. Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home, 2010. May 6, 2011. Web.