If you have parented a child or children in your home through foster care, we'd love to read any and all advice you may have for those considering becoming foster parents.
What do you wish you knew before you became a foster parent? Take some time and share a few of the experiences you've had serving children in foster care.
Cherish the Everyday Stuff
I didn't tell family until I already had my first placement- over the years they have fully accepted my children and truly love them like they were their grandchildren even if I only have them in my …
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Ask Other Foster Parents for Foster Care Agency Recommendations
I am a single foster parent so it was only me (not we). It is only me and my teen daughter in the home, so we talked at length about it and I would not have done it if she felt uncomfortable or was a…
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Take Time Alone as a Couple Away from the Foster Children
Let them know that we would be caring for other children and as a whole they were very supportive.In the course of this time we did adopt five of our children and it's been great. We have had our iss…
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Extended Family Supportive of Foster Parenting
Our family was very understanding from the very first day. They have always accepted the foster children as part of the family. They often ask how we can continue to do this after a hard placement or…
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Foster Parent Helped Maintain Connections with Birth Family While Creating New
When the girls arrived, I brought them to my parent's house and called all the family members to come in and meet them. My family and friends knew I was waiting for a pre-adoptive placement having no…
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Foster Care Led to Foster Care Adoption
When we told our friends and family, we got mixed reactions. This had been our dream for many years, so they were sort of expecting it. My in-laws still struggle with some of it, but they have come s…
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