My husband and I became foster parents in 2000.  We got into foster care because we did want to make our family bigger but we also wanted to just be a help to other families and these children who really just need a place to be until their families can get their lives together. We went into foster care, knowing that the children who came into our home, probably wouldn’t stay. We would just be a resting place. But we both really prayed that we would be a blessing to whoever came into our home and that we would trust that when the kids went home, it was God‘s will. It’s definitely not easy being a foster parent because you do fall in love with every child that comes in to your home, but we realized early that was it was important for us to also love their families because when the kids did go home, it made it a lot easier knowing the parents and supporting them when they were struggling and helping them get their families back together. We did adopt six of our children through foster care. Each situation was different, but we still trusted God with each one, and we honestly did not plan on adopting six children, I’m very thankful, but I do understand it’s very hard for the family and for our children. The children, the parents and us. We all need a support system when you are in the foster care system, or like us parents who are fostering other children. We were foster parents for 11 years and we learned a lot. It really helped us to grow as parents and to be more patient and loving to others who are struggling and maybe not so perfect but you definitely have to step down off a pedestal and realize that everybody needs a friend and support and none of us are perfect and when you realize that you’re not perfect, and that everybody struggles, it really does help loving people who sometimes aren’t lovable.
I just wanted to share my thoughts on how me and my husband dealt with been in foster care, adopting, children, and the most important thing dealing with their birth families.
When we talk to people and explain to them how we decided to deal with the whole foster care situation, people are shocked that we kept our home open to helping these birth families. And I’m telling you the only reason it made it easier to watch these kids go home is because we invested in the entire family unit and we knew that they would do great and some of them we still are friends with and we see how well the parents are doing and they deserve that they deserved a chance to show That they could get their lives together to raise their children.
Not every child went back to the best place. Some of them ended up back in foster care in other homes but we did try. We wanted to be a help. It wasn’t our goal to take children from their homes. Did we want to have more children? of course we did but we didn’t go into it thinking OK we’re gonna adopt all these kids and take these kids from their families that wasn’t our thought. We had David and we love David and we loved his family and if that was the only child that God would give us we would be fine with that. So you really have to
Go into foster care, knowing that yes, you might adopt some children but you definitely have to help heal the whole family unit with the birth family and for the children
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