[tri-med] Foster parents

My heart is filled with admiration for you Nan (and your late 
husband). You are the real heroes in this situation.


>that no one would take. (My husband and I were taking mostly special 
>needs kids
>before they were even called that). The temptation was great, but thank
>goodness, common sense and love of my  job prevailed. But I will 
>always wonder what
>happened to that child. Foster care is a mess, but I think it is because they
>are impacted by so many children with such severe issues due to their bio
>parents having severe problems themselves. And social workers have 
>outrageous case
>loads and there is no human way they can supervise and meet the needs of all
>of the children they are responsible for. I don't know about now, 
>but 20 years
>ago the rules would change like the weather. first they had a program called
>fost-adopt. They would make an assessment at intake on the chances of the
>child reuniting with family and if they were low, they would be 
>place the child in
>a home that had already had a home study so that if the child was released
>for adoption, he/she was already in their forever home. But then there were
>lawsuits and even if parents were willing to take the chance that 
>they child would
>end up leaving, the state was not. So that program bit the dust and last I
>heard, kids still languish for years waiting for bios to finish drug 
>programs or
>some magic knight in shining armour to come and rescue them. And yes, the
>skin tone had better match the child's. And the people making the 
>rules have no
>clue to what is actually happening on the front lines. It is all about law
>suits and money.
>
>Nan-mom to Dom, 25, tri 18 mosaic and bipolar; and Ali, 25, autism, TS, ADHD
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Jocelyn,  wife to Frank,  Mother to Ian, Gillian and Susan, Nanna to 
Carly 21  Mathew 19,  Ashleigh 18, Alex 16,  and Tess  (Trisomy 18,) 
age 11 yrs,  & Benny the Maltese, plus one amazing DIL and two 
amusing SIL's of whom I'm very fond, and their extended family who 
are too many to list here.
   

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