The truth about Foster care (A Child's Point of view) Pt-1
A video to help others understand the damage foster care and adoption does to children. For more info... www.afterfostercare.ca http www ...
Foster Care - The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love (short)
A state foster care recruitment video that features foster kids and foster parents of various ages, ethnicities, and circumstances. This is a 3 ...
Foster Care Interview 3
What two young girls feel and think about having been in foster care
Some of Our Experiences These Last Four Years
My wife and I are each in our early to mid 50s and just adopted a five and seven-year old brother and sister. We have three bio-daughters.  Our eldest married with a four-year old son and is due to have our third grandchild in four days!  Our middle daughter is widowed (Afghanistan, that’s another story for another day) and they have a three-year old boy.  Our youngest (bio) daughter is working and going to a local community college (the jobs is in her career field at a local hospital).
We know the family where our “new kids” came from. Their bio parents just wore their family down with promises of we will quit doing….. we will get our life on track, etc. The family was so put off by these two (insert negative adjective here) that when it came time for the Department of Social Services to remove the (then) two and four-year olds the maternal grandmother actually said to either put them in Foster Care or in the orphanage up state. That’s when the mom asked DSS to check with us to see if we would be willing to care for them while they finished getting their act together.  Originally it was only supposed to be for a few months but weeks turned into months and months turned into years.    After more than a year and a half of failed drug tests, court appearances and failures to complete court ordered Anger Management classes my wife and I began to pray about the next step.  Eventually it became clear that the Lord has placed us in relationship with this family as His back-up plan for these innocent children.  So we talked to our girls and we all agreed adoption is what the Lord would have for us to do in this season of our life.   Now keep in mind we received these children under the state’s safety plan. Which means our home is a safe place and we don’t get any money from anyone. So automatically we needed to come up with money for pullups, wipes, extra food and all the things young children need. The big one was the $800 a month in child care! Ouch!Â
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