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Hi everyone!
I am a foster and adoptive mother with 4 children and working as a clinical psychologist.
I am researching the foster parents experience of attaching to his/her foster child. If you are willing, please anwer the questions below. All is kept confidential. I would greatly appreciate it.
Please feel free to contact me if you need further information or have questions My email address is dbrownerllp@yahoo.com.
1. How long have you been a foster parent?
2. How many foster children have you had live in your home?
A. How long did each live with you?
B. What were the circumstances around their coming to live with you?
C. What were their ages during the time they lived with you?
3. Do you have biological children?
A. If so what were their ages at the time you
had a foster child (or children)living in your home?
4. Discuss your sense of attachmentӔ to your foster
child. Describe your experience as a foster parent to your foster child.
6. As a result of revisiting this experience have you discovered any new revelations in regard to it?
7. Is there anything else you would like to add?
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C - 11 yrs
N - 5 yrs
T - 6 months
R - 2 months
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1. How long have you been a foster parent?
2. How many foster children have you had live in your home?
Just one
A. How long did each live with you?
13 months
B. What were the circumstances around their coming to live with you?
I specifically signed up to be a foster parent so that I could take this child. I met him while I was teaching him at school - he was already in foster care for 4 months, but the goal was changed to TPR and his foster parents couldn't keep him.
C. What were their ages during the time they lived with you?
He was 14 when he came.
3. Do you have biological children? yes
A. If so what were their ages at the time you
had a foster child (or children)living in your home?
2 daughters - ages 7 and 13.
4. Discuss your sense of “attachment” to your foster
child. Describe your experience as a foster parent to your foster child.
He's one of mine. I was quite "attached" before he ever came to us, but after being here for a year, I feel no difference between him and my daughters. Perhaps it is even a more intense "attachment" in SOME ways, since I have had to specifically work with him to a much great degree- participating in therapy, etc. On the other hand, I have totally diffenet expectations (eg. - school success, future jobs, relationships) and I don't find myself as invested in the choices he makes or "what people will think" with his behaviour as I do with my bio kids, since I'm very aware of the fact that he has been raised very differently.
6. As a result of revisiting this experience have you discovered any new revelations in regard to it?
Not sure exactly what you are looking for...biggest surprise to me has been how difficult it has been for one of my daughters. Had I known that in the first place, I might not have started down this road at all.
7. Is there anything else you would like to add?
again - not knowing the nature or purpose of your research, not really.
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Please forgive me for hijacking your thread, but you seem to be the perfect person for me to ask this question. As a clinical psychologist and foster parent, do you feel it's inappropriate for a foster mother to bathe with a 2 1/2 yr old boy? Again, please forgive me for hijacking, but I'm feeling urgent here.
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