May is National Foster Care Month ~ To Tell The Truth

Friday, May 13, 2011

May is National Foster Care Month

I should be blogging about it.

I am having a hard time coming up with a post.

It all seems so sad and hopeless for so many of our foster kin.

Especially for the older kids who flounder year after year, placement after placement, school after school in a system that is based on being temporary.

There aren’t enough good foster families.

We don’t do enough to support original families.

There are not enough suitable families willing to adopt from this country’s foster care system.

And for all of this it is the kids who suffer.

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Becca · 725 weeks ago

The kids do suffer, and it's so sad. But I have to respectfully disagree at least slightly on the "not enough suitable families". There are many suitable families who are ready and willing to adopt older kids, but somehow the system is failing to match these families with the kids who wait, and wait, and wait. Good families get frustrated with the wait. It is an emotional rollercoaster that somehow only seems to go down. I guess no matter how we look at it, though, the end result is the same----kids linger in the system too long when they could be with a loving family.

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Sunday Koffron 64p · 725 weeks ago

When I said willing, I meant WILLING, Willing to gamble, willing to wait it out, willing to jump through the hoops, to be jerked around…willing. I think it is sad that the system makes adopting from foster care such an unattractive prospect to potential adoptive parents. I also thing that it is a sin that the private adoption industry takes advantage of the broken system and uses it to promote private and international adoption over adoption from our foster care system

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Becca · 725 weeks ago

So how do we change the system so the families and the kids actually have a chance to find each other? I wish I had the answer, because I'll tell you the families do not necessarily get treated well by the system, and one can only take so much hoop jumping and being jerked around. Now that I think about it, I suppose the kids feel the same way too. Good thought provoking blog Mrs. Sunday.

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tracyann 90p · 669 weeks ago

well i think that most children have the right to celebrate this special month because it can be their only joy in order to be happy. Thanks for sharing it.
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