Adoption 'versus' Fostering Children.?
By fifer20
@fifer20 (9)
Australia
January 9, 2007 10:45pm CST
When I first met up with my Husband, he hadn't mentioned to me that he had been raised with a 'Foster' Family.
'Partly' with a feeling of SHAME.!!!
Which I think is much harder for the person Involved, to deal with.??
If they haven't been raised with the knowledge about their Birth Parents.!!
Only using the 'Fostered' Family Surname, during their School years. Naturally assuming that this is the name that they were born with.
Then finding out, that this name, didn't actually 'belong to them' in the natural sense.
Never having been 'legally adopted'.!!
It is much harder emotionally, for that person to deal with when Older.
Confusion & disbelief set in.
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@marriedman111399 (1207)
• United States
10 Jan 07
My wife and I have been foster parents for about 5 years and we adopted our 3 kids out of the foster care system. Being a foster parent is hard because you get really attached to them and then they go back to live with there bio parents. You can always think that for as long as you had those kids you showed them love and caring and what a family is. Some of them dont really know what that is and they come from an abusive home and thats why they are being placed in foster care until there parents can get there act together. I think that being a foster parent is great but I also am glad we were able to adopt our kids.
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