What Do Children Think About Foster Care?

This article will summarize the results of two studies that focus on people who are often not asked their opinions of foster care.

How do children in foster care feel about their parents? - Quora

There is no one answer and a child's feelings about their bio parents may change from one day to the next. Even hour to hour. A child may be ...

My Experiences in Foster Care | Children's Rights

It can also be a good thing, as weird as that sounds. Some children come from terrible situations within their biological families and they will ...

How Foster children feel and the safety they seek | FosterVA

This lack of knowledge of their past can leave them feeling as if they are unconnected to their own life. Once they enter their foster care program and a new ...

[Serious] Redditors who were in foster care, what was it like?

The foster care system isn't made to create well adjusted happy children. As soon as you are happy and/or comfortable in a place, they rip you out and plut you ...

Opinion | Our Foster Care System Is Fundamentally Broken

As a result, we are making a bold call: Children should not be placed in foster care because of poverty. If children do enter care, it should be ...

Foster Care and What I Feared Most For My Own Kids

They see a different world, and see the world differently. Foster care has given them something we as mom and dad would likely never have been ...

What Being a Foster Parent Did to My Family | WI Foster Care

Our son and daughter developed compassion and empathy beyond most kids their age. They started to recognize similarities with most of the kids. Food ...

Effect on Biological Children - Adoption.com

I am nervous on how fostering will affect our kids. I can see it being a positive experience because I think that they will grow up kinder and more generous.

How fostering will change your child's life - Bethany Christian Services

So foster care doesn't just change the kids' lives, but it also changes ours. It'll change your family, and it helps open everyone's eyes because you learn what ...

What Does It Feel Like to be a Child in Foster Care

Children in foster care feel insecure and lonely and want to be home. Know that their moms and dads want them to be home.

Talking to Your Toddler about Foster Care - Her View From Home

My kids have grown up in a home where caseworkers are their friends, our foster care agency is “the fun place with the ducks” (there's a pond behind the ...

Thought Provoking Perspective | Foster Focus

These teenagers are more difficult to reach and there isn't much time to do so given in many states foster children still leave foster care at the age of ...

What You Really Should Know About Kids in Fostering Families

Then consider how foster care might teach them those things. Want them to be selfless? Sharing their home and toys might do that. Want them to ...

Success vs. Statistics in Foster Care - Child Bridge

Such grim statistics are shocking and may leave you wondering how so many children end up in such devastating situations. A little of my own backstory might be ...

29 Surprising Foster Care Facts - Alternative Family Services

In comparison to veterans, former foster youth are twice as likely to suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.5; Close to 56,000 children are foster youth in ...

Understanding the Impact of Foster Care and Adoption on Children ...

ONE. Children or teens may feel they have become invisible to their parents after the arrival of a new foster or adopted child. · TWO. Children ...

Raising Awareness: The Reality of Foster Care - Parent Cue

Foster care also exists because parents and caregivers create unsafe and painful living environments for children either by neglect or abuse. Either way, kids ...

Do you Love Me? From the perspective of a foster kid

Non-stop praise. They are courageous, vulnerable, giving, and brave. I have two images in my mind when I think of caring foster parents – a punching bag and ...

Why The Risk Of Foster Care Is What's Best For My Family

They now have a heart for the hurting. Some of them want to foster when they grow up and all of them constantly beg us to take in more children. In fact, the ...