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I Want To Be A Foster Parent?

I Want To Be A Foster Parent?

Do you think you could handle being a dedicated Foster Parent?

Parent Foster Be Want I

Yes my wife and I only had two more classes to go through before we would have been foster parents. We had a social worker come to our house and look it over to see if it was an environment safe for foster children to grow and excel in. It was then that we found out that my wifes cancer came back. Now we can not have foster kids.

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Dedicated, yes but I don't think I could be a foster parent. I would be too emotionally involved with the child and I would be literally heartbroken when they have to take him/her out from my care.

Parent Foster Be Want I

Perhaps once our own are grown and out of the house as some of the foster children can be a real handful even dangerous. I also would fear what LDS_foever mentioned being unable to let go.

Parent Foster Be Want I

There's definitely more to it than they tell you. We were foster carers for over 10 years,fostering over 70 children and babies before we adopted two of the children that we had been fostering.
There were good times, but there were many, many heartbreaking times when you just knew that kids were being returned to their abusive parents because of lack of evidence, or cases being thrown out of court.

The good sides are when you take a child in, and you know that even if it's only for a short while you're doing some good for them by providing them with a stable family environment...the bad sides are when the social workers make arrangements on a daily basis for the abusive/paedophile parents to dictate your life for you because 'it's their right' to do so!

I've got mixed feelings, and don't think I would foster again if the clocks were turned back, although I'm glad that we decided to adopt.

I Want To Be A Foster Parent?

I was going to be a second generation foster parents. My mother and father were foster parents as I was growing up. We always seemed to have two or three kids living with us and growing with us as we grew up. As us (naturally-born) kids moved out my parents became emergency foster parents. That was interesting in they never knew when they were going to get a call that a social worker was coming with a kid or two.