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=Robot Guardians to Protect Foster Children=



In modern day America foster homes are a common component of society. They are meant to help protect the nation's abused and neglected children, but how often are these children actually well taken care of? According to statistics in New York City alone, more than 74% of foster home children are exposed to cruel treatment. More and more foster parents are being allowed to home more than 10 children at a time. This causes immense overcrowding and competition amongst the children. They are forced to expect less due to the lack of resources in such a busy household. People may wonder why others would be inclined to take on such a heavy load of children, especially a group that aren't even biologically theirs. The answer is quite simple; it all comes down to money. For every child taken from an orphanage and placed in a foster home the foster parents can receive anywhere from $435-$605 a month per child (depending on age). Children should no longer be subjected to such abuse, neglect, overcrowding, and greed. Logically, a solution must be made to forever end the tragedy of mistreated children. Starting immediately the United States should grant each child in the foster care system their own personal, in-home, robotic guardian along with their normal foster parents.

Although the solution of robotic guardians seems a bit farfetched it is more accurate than meets the eye. As technology becomes more advanced the idea of robotic guardians does not seem all that unbelievable. In the past, America has been amused by robot inspired entertainment such as //The Jetsons, Star Wars,// and //AI: Artificial Intelligence.// These shows and movies helped to portray the value and relevance of robots. Robots are more intellectual, protective, and entertaining than past attempts in caring for children. Previously the government has used background checks in order to insure the safety of foster children. They have seemed to overlook the fact that just because people do not have a criminal record does not mean they are fit parents. Throughout the years the care of children has gone drastically down hill. People are becoming less concerned with the quality of parents and more concerned with getting children out of the system. This has lead to the reasoning that individual robot guardians that are unique to each child are the only way to insure child safety in America.

Robots are the perfect solution to this growing problem because unlike humans they are programmed to react calm and respectfully rather than acting on impulses such as rage and anger. Also, children in foster homes suffer from deep emotional pain stemming from being torn away from their biological parents. These children need more attention and love than other kids simply because their entire lives have been moving from home to home without any real connection of love. The robots would allow constant love and care that can not always be provided by a human guardian. Human's have other cares besides their kids such as finances, health issues, and business, where as these specially designed robots will have no other concern but for the child. This way children will always have a friend no matter how lonely they feel. Along with caring for the child's emotions the robotic guardian will be able to protect the child from physical harm sometimes committed by foster parents.

As years have gone by abuse has become more and more prevalent in the United States and all over the world, especially towards children. Children living in foster homes are subject to this injustice more often than not. In the news currently their have been stories of children being starved to death, locked in closets, and chained in basements. Fortunately, with their very own robot guardian foster children will no longer have to endure attacks like these. These robots are loaded with a fully automatic M4 machine gun, x-ray vision, night vision, and an anger analyzer located in their programming. This analyzer allows the robots to know when foster parents are becoming angry or enraged with children, which enables the robot to remove the child from the situation and act quickly before the anger escalates. The idea of robot guardians could be very successful in keeping foster parents away from hurting their children. Likewise, overcrowding will be virtually unheard of because the house will be constantly monitored, not to mention that many people will not want 6 children each with their own robot walking around the house. All aspects of robot guardians seem to point in one logical direction: better lives for children everywhere.

Many people will object to this idea simply because they will be unwilling to take the time to understand it. Others will believe that robots are incapable of giving love and affection because they are machines. This is a realistic thought however foster parents who take the responsibility of these children should be capable of providing love for them rather than thinking of what they're worth. There are many people in this world who possess the heart and ability to love and care for children that are not their own. It takes a certain type of person to take an unrelated child into their home and treat them no different than any blood relative. This quality will soon be utilized in these robots' machinery in order to insure the proper love and devotion every child deserves. Also their might be some disagreements with the thought of a child interacting with a robot who is equipped with a loaded weapon. This would not be an issue again because of technological advances in programming. The weapon is only loaded after the child is out of harms way and when the enraged parent is secluded from any children. Some also might believe that this solution would be unsuccessful due to the abundance of foster care children. Although the mass amount of foster children is remarkable, bring that this is the United States of America we have both the funds and resources necessary for a project such as this. With help from volunteers, donations, and government funds this seemly unreachable goal could be easily attained. With all these objections the question arises: why not try anything in order to protect our nation’s children?

The growing problem of abuse, overcrowding, and neglect are affecting this nation more than others realize. They are all too concerned with their own lives to consider the torture that is occurring all around them. Child abuse in foster homes is a growing problem and it will continue to grow if someone does not put an end to it. That end is the installment of guardian robots for each child. With these robots child death will decrease and abuse will come to an end in foster homes. Foster parents will have a reason to not beat or mistreat their children and maybe even realize that it is a privilege to be able to have them. Not only will these robot guardians help save children of America they will also increase the appreciation and love for children everywhere.

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