It can be overwhelming when you foster a child for the first time, particularly when you are trying to make them feel welcome in your home and you’re looking for…
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To answer you simply, YES unmarried adults, either female or male, can be foster parents. The most important requirement for fostering, whether you are single or a couple, is that…
According to statistics in the United States there are more than 440,000 children in foster care. Love, protection, and the support every child needs are provided by foster parents. At…
You may find all the things you need to know about fostering are overwhelming when you first start out. However, things will become easier with time as you learn more…
There are thousands of children in foster care waiting for their forever family and longing to experience the love and acceptance of a family they can call their own. Here…
Every year in the United States thousands of children, after experiencing abuse, abandonment or neglect, enter foster care, also known as the juvenile dependency system. Young people in foster care…
A popular parenting approach among adoptive and foster parents who are raising kids who have had traumatic experiences, is Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®). These principles are found in the book…
Until recently, when children could not live safely with their biological parents they went to live in foster care with strangers. The trend lately is to place these children in…
You’ve had a deep-down urge for a while now, so you read up on the Texas statistics and see photos of the children who are waiting to be adopted or…
The primary goal of foster care is safe family reunification, which unfortunately, many people seem to find difficult to accept. The Child Welfare Information Gateway (a government website), states that…