"Teenagers for the most part are viewed as kind of like a lost hope," says Cowan, now 27. "We have problems and so many issues."
This is what a lot of foster parents and even other adults think about fostering teenagers. They feel that teenagers are too much trouble and that they come with too much baggage. So, most of them do not even give teenagers a chance. They just say that they are too far gone and can not be helped due to issues they have had to deal with.
This article is called "This mom takes in bouncing baby... teens." It talkes about a woman who was Terri Cowan's mentor, then her foster mother, and now her mother. Terri was 16 when she was adopted and she is now 27.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40085225
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