Legally Kidnapped: Affects of Foster Care on Extended Family

Legally Kidnapped: Affects of Foster Care on Extended Family

The following is a disturbing but interesting post from that cute little foster parent. Here she goes into a couple of different issues. The first being many requests for her to take children. The second being that she talks about getting attached to the children in her care, although she still hasn't even taken any in.
Affects of Foster Care on Extended Family

We plan on getting attached and we plan on the children being attached to us. We know we’re asking a lot of our family and close friend because we’re asking them to take a chance and get attached to the kids as well. We’re asking them, at some level, to risk their hearts they same way we are risking ours. It’s been a difficult thing to navigate the calling to foster Mr. T and I feel God put on us and then bring our family members, who may not be as passionate about it, into the journey as well. While I can only vaguely truly understand what it is we are really asking of the people in lives, I do understand that we are asking our community to open their hearts to and be educated about foster children and adoption.
I gotta take issue with this paragraph especially. Why? For one, foster parents who get attached to the children in their care are often the real parents worst nightmare. Not because she won't take good care of kids, as that is not the issue here. The issue is the attachment part. If a foster caregiver falls in love with a kid they will usually want to adopt. If they want to adopt, and the workers decide to give the kid back to the real parents, you will see her screaming out against the horrible injustice. Some have been known to hire lawyers to fight for custody against the real parents. The real parents are forced to fight.
And, of course, we're still waiting for The Lord to approve of the foster kids that were meant for her. Perhaps the next call. Who knows.

What I do know is sooner or later she's going to get bitten by the hand that feeds her, and it will be fun watching her come to terms with reality.

I'll keep you posted.