• From Empty Nesters To Foster Parents🔍
• What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Foster Parenting🔍
• Why We Provide Foster Care🔍
• Why I Keep Going When Foster Care Gets Tough🔍
• It's OK to Say “It's Hard”🔍
• What You Need to Know About Fostering a Child You Already Know🔍
• Myths and Joys of Being a Foster Parent🔍
• Why Do People Become Foster Parents?🔍

From Empty Nesters To Foster Parents - Focus on the Family

“Rob knows how important this is for Josh to have a sense of belonging. So do my other children.” However, for other families, that integration ...

What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Foster Parenting

Getting to know a new member of your family and understanding their individual needs can make the first week seem like a whirlwind. Not to ...

Why We Provide Foster Care - Spurwink

These kids need to know they are worthy, wonderful little people (or not so little!). ... We've grown to love these kids and wish the whole family ...

Why I Keep Going When Foster Care Gets Tough - Hope & Home

Daily I choose to submit to people and governmental structures that are imperfect (like Jesus did) for the sake of love. I know that Jesus is truly the only ...

It's OK to Say “It's Hard” - Foster Focus

I often hear, on a weekly basis, that my wife and I are saints for caring for children in need and opening up our homes and hearts to kids in foster care.

What You Need to Know About Fostering a Child You Already Know

But it could have turned out worse. It was my friend's “yes” to becoming a child-specific foster parent that kept his granddaughter with a loving family she was ...

Myths and Joys of Being a Foster Parent | Kingdom Workers

My truth: I am a unique individual with personal strengths and flaws and so are you. My kitchen is always messy but my strength is the ability to love people. I ...

Why Do People Become Foster Parents? - embrella

I offend wonder if there was other Foster Parents like myself who felt this way. That really touched me. I love what I do and as long as God gives me air to ...

Hosting A Foster Care Shower: Two Things You Need To Know

How we navigated this: We requested guests to bring gift cards instead of gifts. Many times foster parents receive a call that a child needs ...

What I Wish Adoptive Parents Knew - Adoption Choices of Oklahoma

When I placed for adoption, I did so because I wanted more fo this child than I could give him. When I chose you, I did so believing that you would be able to ...

Why I Decided to Foster a College Student - FamilyLife - A Cru Ministry

God had given me such a strong heart for adoption and foster care. I had wanted to adopt since I was a little girl, and several people in my life were fostering ...

Foster Parents Reflect on Parent-Child Visits - Fostering Perspectives

It is an awesome feeling when you know that you are assisting a family in continuing to be a family. One birth mom asked to hide in the trunk and come home with ...

Our Adoption Story: What I Wish I Knew Before Adopting - Motherly

If this mama could go back to the start of her adoption experience, here's what she'd tell herself—and others—about adopting.

My Journey to Becoming a Foster Parent and Lessons Learned

Many times, when I see friends or meet people they ask, “What made you decide to foster?” or “Did you just wake up one day and decide?” Honestly, the simple ...

34 Life-Changing Reasons to be a Foster Parent - New Horizons

You are a teaching a child how to connect and love – Many times, children with trauma don't know how to bond and be nurtured. You are teaching them the depths ...

How Did I Decide To Become a Single Foster Mom?

... knowing about foster care, and kids in foster care. As part of my ... Foster Moms, and a number of other groups of foster parents. This is perhaps ...

Guide to Going Home: Foster Care from a Youth Perspective

Parents want the best for their kids. There's no doubt. But ... I wish other kids knew; a lot of people don't even know about [foster care.] ...

Adoptive Mom and Biological Mom Team Up so Their Children can ...

I remember watching documentaries on adoption and foster care as a teenager and knew that would somehow fit into my story. ... I wish more ...

Foster Love - "Baby M is BEYOND loved. No bio/foster... | Facebook

You can't love the hurt/loss/trauma of separation from a parent away. I wish more Foster/Adoptive parents realized this. 3 wks. 2. 󱘫. Top fan.

Foster Care from a Case Workers Perspective

“When I tell people what I do for a living, I usually receive responses like, “Wow, that must be so hard” or “I'm glad you're able to do ...