Being a foster kid isn’t easy. Unless you get really lucky, there is a high likelihood you will spend a lot of your childhood bouncing between homes without the level of care that you deserve. Even those who manage to find a semi-permanent home are not guaranteed the best treatment. It can be a punishing system to go through.

This is something that one woman knows all too well after the ghosts of her foster childhood past came back to haunt her recently. At the age of 12, she was placed in a home with foster parents who treated her as their «live-in maid», a situation that she gladly escaped once she went to college. Now 32 and with a successful career in marketing, her so-called family called her expecting her to help them out of a tough financial situation. She refused, and they weren’t happy. It’s no surprise whose side the internet was on.