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Dear Fan Fiction Authors:
Foster homes are not all bad. Saying a character was in a foster home should not be accepted shorthand for "had a bad childhood and was unloved."
Foster homes are not doing it for the money. For the love of god. Stop it. There is no way. Ever. It works out to being about maybe 1/2 of what you actually spend on a kid. MAYBE MAYBE if you had a kid with a lot of medical disabilities. It is an untaxed federal
reimbursement. Basically, it's child support from the state. So chill.
Foster children DO NOT share beds. Ever. Not with siblings, not with adults, not with animals. So the difficulty Clint has falling asleep alone cannot be attributed to never having his own bed. He did. And it was looked at twice a month by a worker.
The rooms cannot be co-ed. Ever.
Kids are moved for a LOT of reasons. It's not because the foster parents are bad. In my case I've moved two. Both because of their behavior towards the other children I had. Kids have been moved to be with siblings, to be in different school districts, to be closer to visits, to be closer to treatment, and to be institutionalized.
The system is awful and chews up everyone involved. But behind most foster kids is a series of tired women holding the hands of babies they won't get to keep.
Foster homes are not doing it for the money. For the love of god. Stop it. There is no way. Ever. It works out to being about maybe 1/2 of what you actually spend on a kid. MAYBE MAYBE if you had a kid with a lot of medical disabilities. It is an untaxed federal
reimbursement. Basically, it's child support from the state. So chill.
Foster children DO NOT share beds. Ever. Not with siblings, not with adults, not with animals. So the difficulty Clint has falling asleep alone cannot be attributed to never having his own bed. He did. And it was looked at twice a month by a worker.
The rooms cannot be co-ed. Ever.
Kids are moved for a LOT of reasons. It's not because the foster parents are bad. In my case I've moved two. Both because of their behavior towards the other children I had. Kids have been moved to be with siblings, to be in different school districts, to be closer to visits, to be closer to treatment, and to be institutionalized.
The system is awful and chews up everyone involved. But behind most foster kids is a series of tired women holding the hands of babies they won't get to keep.