Dr Roger Morgan has published the diary notes of 23 children who are in care, leaving care or living in boarding schools or residential special schools.
The young volunteers filled a diary for a week, with 100 accounts recorded in the report. One 11-year-old wrote: "Foster care isn’t as bad as people say it is because I always thought I would die if I came into care but I loved it. Some days weren’t good, but others were the best days of my life.
"The sad thing about being in care is when it comes up to Mother's Day or Father's Day but if you see them then that isn’t as bad but even if you don’t you can get your foster carers something as they are like your mum and dad."
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