Honest Parenting

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Yes, you get a stipend fpr each child and the amount depends on what state you are living in. You can’t get rich being a foster parent, but the true reward comes from knowing you helped a child who may have not had a chance before coming to your home.

admin answers:

Foster care is foster care and yes you do get paid as if the child is not related. My mother hda to take in my niece and was paid full benefits.

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Please make sure this is something you really are prepared to do as i manage a nursery where we have quite a few children who are in foster care. Some of the carers really cannot cope with the children (who are all under 5) and do not treat them nicely. I have made a complaint about two of the foster mums in particular – one came in and in front of the 4 year old said he had been evil all weekend and she could not wait to get rid on him.

These children can sometimes be very trying – kicking, screaming, foul language, be non affectionate and not sleep at night. They can be very disturbed by being removed from their parents and may have been bought up in a household where some behaviours unacceptable to you are acceptable to them.

I am sure you will enjoy being a foster carer but please treat your children well – it breaks my heart to see some of the children go home and their little heads go down when they their carer has come to pick them up after a fun day. There are so few carers that they try to place too many children with one family and this is why placements break down.

My advice would be to stick up for yourself and not be pressurised by social services to take on more children then you can cope with. Our best foster family only ever take two children at once and they make sure that they are different ages so they can balance the children’s needs

Besides all that i wish you all the best of luck and i hope you make many children very Happy by providing them with a sanctuary

admin answers:

I don’t have an easy answer, but wanted to clarify that many adoptions are newborn adoptions in the US (domestic adoptions), usually done through private agencies. These generally cost about the same as international adoptions ($15,000+). We adopted an infant 3 years ago. Our wait was less than a year, but it varies widely. With domestic adoption the first mom usually picks the family for her child, so the wait is not predictable. Our adoption was about $18,000 – not cheap, but luckily we could do it. The costs were spread out over the year, so it wasn’t all at once.

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Child abuse or neglect, change in housing that doesn’t meet CPS’ requirements, change in permanent residents (i.e. a child molester moving into the home), felony conviction, drug use/abuse, etc.