My husband and I are in the middle of training to Lord willing, because foster parents (we have biological children as well) and are learning that the children tend to view you as the problem and want their moms no matter what they did to them. I am excited and terrified to follow Chr...
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 w...
Agencies like The Center in Owensboro are doing their best to right that ship and they're doing so by focusing on the families- in particular the 980 of the 8047 kids that are fostered with relatives. 12% of children in Kentucky's foster care program fall into that category. They're pla...
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 ...
On the one hand, the foster child is loyal to the parenting of the biological subsystem of their two sets of parents, often expressed non-verbally, and including strong aspects of passivity and social maladjustment; on the other hand, the child must adapt to the functional parenting subsystem ...