In the case of foster parents, who better to understand the complicated foster care system, the unique needs of the children and the emotional roller coaster of parenting them than those who have been through it themselves. That’s why foster care agencies throughout the country hold meetings ...
This show is very much a "text book example of" Hit or Miss in the history of children's cartoons. Don't get me wrong; Fosters home for imaginary friends has a lot of heart when it works, and the jokes can be very funny. It's just this shows biggest problem is it's writing. ...
After a year of making more sacrifices than most mothers to care for my broken children, still they tell me their hearts are only half as full as they were before – with their father. Their father who spent his days so strung out on drugs and alcohol he didn’t know they were there....
Sheila Anderson, a program manager for Children’s Institute International’s emergency infant services, also serves as a lay representative to the California Assn. of Adoption Agencies. Parker Anderson is director of industrial and commercial development for the city of Los Angeles. The Andersons se...
Trend data are routinely produced by foster care agencies. We contend, however, that these data, which tend to be annualized, remove operationally useful information from conversations about how systems work and why we see the population changes we see. We want to add that lost information back...
Empirical data also shows self-centred motivations for foster care. The fostering of a child can satisfy the ambitions and personal desires of a carer ("The girl . . . the girl I have never had, I do not know if you are understanding me . . . I have a boy, I have never wanted ...