text: How many adopted or foster children have died at the hands of their so-called adopted parents or foster parents?  We've read about these killings over the years and that's contributed to the black eye that OCS is saddle with.  Anyone can buy a house with a white picket fence and then turn around and murder their adopted or foster child.  At least the children that were murdered at the hands of their adopted or foster parents lived while they were in the care of their biological parent(s).