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The Foster-Care-to-Prison Pipeline

I'm about to throw some statistics at you that will make you feel really unsettled about the outcomes for foster kids in America. My husband is in school to become a counselor, and he shared these statistics with me after a recent research project...

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A Letter To the Bio Parents Who Use Their Children As Pawns

Dear Parent Who Cares More About Yourself Than Your Children,

You give a bad name to the biological parents who have children in foster care who are working REALLY HARD to make their lives better. You are the cause of horror stories that make...

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Foster/Adoptive Kids Who “Shop” for New Parents

My foster daughter loves our family and genuinely doesn't want to be in any other home. But literally everywhere we go, she says, "I wish I lived here."

Or, "I wish I lived with them."

Sometimes, she even asks people, "Can I move in with you?" She pretends like she's joking, but considering the fact that she does it with every family we meet, I think she's only party joking.

She watches adults in a way...

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Fostering: 5 Things We Wish We’d Have Done Differently

My husband and I were lucky when we started fostering. We had experience working with kids who'd been through trauma and kids who had behavioral disorders. We'd worked with difficult biological families before, we'd learned how to navigate family team meetings, and we'd lived...

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“Are you going to adopt her?” – The Answer to the Big Foster Care Question

Since we took our foster daughter into home almost six months ago, we've been asked probably 9,782 times if we're going to adopt her. I don't blame people for asking. It's not an unreasonable question, and it's one that I've wondered myself many times....

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Sometimes It’s Hard to Emotionally Connect With Your Foster Child

For me, it has always been easy to connect with our current foster daughter. From the moment she stepped into our home, it felt like she’d always been there and would never leave. For my husband, however, the process took A LOT more time....

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11 Myths That Cause People NOT to Foster

Foster homes are in short supply around the United States, but families aren't stepping forward to help. Why is that? For the most part, it's because of false statistics people have come to believe about foster care.

It's time to clear some of those...

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Inability to Make Eye Contact: Autism or Social Anxiety?

My husband and I had a hilarious conversation this week where he asked me (mostly joking), "Do I have Autism?"

I say that he was mostly joking because a little piece of him was seriously wondering if his social anxiety "symptoms" meant that he was...

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8 Things That Are REALLY Helpful to Foster Families

The desire people have to help foster families and foster kids is BEAUTIFUL. I will never not love it and appreciate it. However, I think there are some misconceptions about what is actually helpful and what is kind of overwhelming.

With every attempt to be...

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The Day I Realized My Foster Daughter’s Biological Mom Was My Equal

If you'd have asked me at any point over the past four months about the worth of my foster daughter's biological mother, I would have told you that she is loved beyond reason, valued, prayed for, worthy, and forgiven. Without a shadow of a...

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The Here & There of
Foster Care

The Foster-Care-to-Prison Pipeline

A Letter To the Bio Parents Who Use Their Children As Pawns

Foster/Adoptive Kids Who “Shop” for New Parents

Fostering: 5 Things We Wish We’d Have Done Differently

“Are you going to adopt her?” – The Answer to the Big Foster Care Question

Sometimes It’s Hard to Emotionally Connect With Your Foster Child

11 Myths That Cause People NOT to Foster

Inability to Make Eye Contact: Autism or Social Anxiety?

8 Things That Are REALLY Helpful to Foster Families

The Day I Realized My Foster Daughter’s Biological Mom Was My Equal

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