Horror stories

When we started kinship care my mother was aloof and tentative. She knew better than to talk us out of it, but I think she was thinking the kinds of things your mother is thinking. After a while, I realized that she was really just afraid of loving a child and being hurt when that child couldn't remain a part of our family. She did tell me once not to get too attached. Today we're adoptive parents and my mother is a wonderful grandmother to our daughter. So maybe she's just scared of loving your foster children and then having to let them go. Amy