2006-10-26 13:22:22 · 8 answers · asked by Tiffany 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
Not all foster homes are bad, and not all people do it just for the money. A lot of people actually care about the kids. My mom's cousin and his wife had a foster home and they turned a lot of their kid's lives around. Many of them years later still visit them. One of the girls that lived with them was anorexic when she came to live with them, but now she is happy and healthy and the mother of 4 kids.
2006-10-26 13:30:49 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan's mom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have known people that were foster parents and with them I know all the kids that were in their care were very happy and alot of them went on to lead a very good life after leaving foster care. Why do u ask this not a question that u see often on this site.
My grandparents were foster parents and some of the children that went into there home were badly hurt by there parents or by a step parent, it was the best place for them to be.
2006-10-26 20:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by whats up all 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been in foster care fr 14 years, i am 17 now...and from my personal expireience, i know that i am better off in foster care, than being with my biological parents. As much as i love my mom, i could care less about my dad... my foster parents (currently) have given me a life i wouldn't have had if i lived with my bio parents. I have lived in MANY homes and each one was different, some horrible, some good, some great. often i felt alone, sad, unloved and disliked...i carried a lot of baggage because i was treated badly as a little girl. Foster care is there for kids who are living in unsafe situations, it is for the best, sometimes foster parent take the job seriously, sometimes they dont...overall i believe foster care changes lives for the better. i know i wouldnt be who i am today without my current foster parents!
2006-10-26 22:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by prettyinpink<3<3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was never in a foster home, but I did spend time in states custody. I went from Detox to a Girls Group home, the Cambell House. Some of the girls were in foster care, some were being united with their bio parents, and some, were in limbo like me.. they could stay in states custody, go to a foster home or because they were so close to being 18 like I was they could choose to go back to their bio parents.
I liked the Cambell House. Yes wwe were made to do our own clothes, cook our own food, and handle our own grocery list. There was always staff at the home to care for us, but we went to school and had normal lives in a way.
The chores werent to make our lives hell, but to show us a sense of responsibility. Maybe thats why I saty on my kids so much now about house chores and rules. They taught me alot and they taught me that you cant always do it on your own.
At the home we girls had to learn to depend on each other if we wanted to get stuff done. We had to tolerate personal differences and make that house work.
Its been along time ago, and now that I am older and have married and have children I appreciate the time they took on me and I thank them for it.
2006-10-27 02:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by Shalamar Rue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foster homes dont feel like you are really being loved like your real parents would. They dont give you money, they dont give 2 shyts about you. They just use you for the money because the government supports you every month.
2006-10-26 20:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
i hve been a foster kid 4 bout 6yrs.. and i loved it.. if not then i dont think i would even be as good as kid, or be so good in sports or in school.. it saved my life.. i love it.. and i love my family.. i kno its weird.. but be4 i got 2 the family im w/ now it didnt feel right.. u kno that ur in the right family when u feel it..
2006-10-26 21:48:37 · answer #6 · answered by ღ~♥~ღKCღ~♥~ღ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they are usually only buildings where kids are kept in groups who have been left there by parents.are cold institutions without much real love,family love.
2006-10-27 11:19:43 · answer #7 · answered by stefan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theyre terrible, they make you wash like everything and make all the food and do all the chores. Worst of all they make you sing while you do chores. And then they make you sing...again
2006-10-26 20:38:59 · answer #8 · answered by (s)AINT 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋