be a foster parent

My parents were foster parents (weekends only) of a mentally handicapped guy 7 years older than me.
He saw me grow up to the age of 16, when I migrated to NZ.
It helped my development because I didn’t have any other brothers and sisters so didn’t get too spoiled. And it helped me develop an understanding and care of people not so well of in our society, for reasons they can or cannot take responsibility for.
Every kid deserves good parents. I hope to be a good parent one day, so why not get one or two foster kids to keep the family going.

Of course not all foster kids are from broken families or have limited abilities, but these certainly come to my mind first.

Oh by the way, I voted strong right.

My family is currently in the process of becoming a foster family. It’s made me realize just how many kids there are out there in need of good homes. This has inspired me to want to be a foster parent when I get older.

I want to be a foster parent and provide a loving, happy home for a child. I want them to have hope for the future and live a healthy, happy life.

I want to provide a beautiful home for children who are in the midst of difficult struggles with the court system and family turbulence. I want to help many different needy children to have quality experiences of being cared for at some point in their lives, even if they are returned to their parents.

Its a logical thing to do. People foster, but it tends to be 0-5 leaving 7 year olds to think their too old for a home. I’m considering fostering teenagers, but its a in the future kind of thing. I’ll have to be in a good place financially to be able to afford to do so.

It would not matter how much they pay us to be foster parent to the boy and girl(sibling) we are taking care of…we just picked them up from a visit with their fathers all weekend, and the tears we shed for them, on their behalf, CANNOT be compensated financially ever….foster parenting is very hard….this is our 1st time, and I’m not sure that we can ever do it again…

thanks

Putting this on hold….

I found a group on campus that works with mentoring and tutoring foster children. Since I’m closer to their age than adults, hopefully I can get to know how they think before I grow up and foster kids of my own.

This will have to wait until I’m older and done vagabonding/adventuring. I want to wait until my own kiddo is out of the house. And my husband will need to be on the same page about it, too. So this is in the way distant future, I guess.

Being a Foster Parent is exhausting but so worth while. I am so very glad to have the girls in my home!