Foster Care/Adoption Stories

I am relatively new to foster care but I have already discovered that as a foster parent you are on your own. Although the state workers may be caring and do their best, they are often overworked, stressed, young and have never been parents themselves. As a foster parent, you need to be very aggressive to get the services your child needs on your own, whether medical, dental, special education or mental health. You need to try to love children that you wouldn't normally want in your home and yet give up the children you love. And in return, you get almost no information or updates and have no rights and little input. You think long and hard about what ages, sex, numbers and kinds of children are good matches for your home and family and write them down and discuss them on your interview but in the end, the workers need to place children in good homes and your needs and wishes are rarely considered. You can only hope that the love, security and quick catch up on medical care and learning has helped a child in need. I don't blame the poor social workers, but the system is broken.

The above post is right. But it can be the most rewarding thing in your life! These poor kids need us foster parents to help and take cae of them. Some of the children can be "fixed" some you don't have enough time to do so and some just can't be....but you know that you have done your best and and every step toward improvment is such an incredible rewarding feeling! If you are the kind of person that can put forward the kind of effort needed for these kids, please please do so....if not, Don't. I would not be good for any party involved.