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As with all things they may not love them at first but, grow to love them. They may have a love for helping others, this love is the start of a great bond between foster parents/children. Though they do not always get good parents who care about them, more often then not the parents do end up becoming just like real parents in all aspects.

2007-06-19 06:28:24 · answer #1 · answered by Lucia 4 · 0 0

Kids in foster care are put into a home, often with other children. They have different rules, and different expectations than you might have had at your own home. They are fed, clothed, and most of the time included in the family. Life goes on, except the children are in a different home. Usually councelling is added as well, and school, and perhaps more doctor visits than the child had before. Visitation with the biological parents is likely, if the goal is reunification with the family.

There are many homes who care for the children they are given, though in strictly foster care homes they are discouraged from bonding too close because the goal is not to replace the biological family. The goal is to provide a safe place to live.

There are also foster homes where the foster parents do not care about the kids that live there at all. There are bad apples in every bunch.

2007-06-19 13:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Ivey 2 · 0 0

Nope. I have been in foster care and have had my kids in foster care. When I was there, all the people wanted were kids to do all the chores so that a the "mom" could sleep all day and the "dad" could drink all the time. When my kids were there they would come for visits with severe sunburns, bug bites and tell me about how the foster parents would put them outside in the morning and lock the doors until supper time. My little guy was only 2 when this happened. They were also part of some whacked out church that scared my daughter. Hope this answers your question.

2007-06-19 15:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by Lostlove 5 · 0 0

I think some of them do. I think some of them are just in it for the support check they receive for each child. I think some are, unfortunately, in it because they get an endless supply of innocence to prey upon. My son and his wife were foster parents in the past. They did it because they could not have children, wanted children, and had the means to support them. They eventually adopted two of the children that they fostered. They have fostered one other child since adopting their two boys, but were crushed when they lost that child back to the "system" after a year and half with them; so I doubt they will foster another. I think life as a foster child must be uncertain and frightening, at best.

Lady Ivey, above, has written an excellent assessment of the situation.

2007-06-19 13:33:20 · answer #4 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 0 0

Some foster parents genuinely love their foster kids, and others are just looking for a check. Either way, I think foster care is traumatic for children.

2007-06-19 13:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I think there are some good foster parents that really love children. Then there are those who are in it, sadly, for the money. I wish there were so many foster parents applicants, they could screen out those in it for profit.

2007-06-19 13:30:06 · answer #6 · answered by JAN 7 · 0 0

I think foster parents love kids, yes. That is why they chose to foster children in their home. They make a lot of sacrifices to do so. It is not for money, because they only get enough to cover the child's needs anyways.
It takes a while for love to grow for anyone.

2007-06-19 13:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0 1

yes they really love them. My mother and grandmother are foster parents and one of the hardest thing is letting a child go back home. You get attached to them if they are there long enough and you love them just like they are your own. it still makes me sad just thinking about it. but yes they really do love them. i'm going to become a foster parent next year after we buy our house.

2007-06-19 13:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by Supermommy!!! 5 · 0 0

I've been in foster care as a small child and i was loved and when i was finally adopted i hav eto say yes i have been loved very much by my parents. people who adopt or provide foster care have big hearts and are very nice people, very rare is the one syou hear about ont he news.

2007-06-19 13:27:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The new parents must have love to give and hearts of gold to even volunteer to be foster parents.

2007-06-19 13:28:39 · answer #10 · answered by Mark 4 · 0 1

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