We used to foster and stopped because of the lack of care that social workers had for the kids and families. Our family didn’t matter to SWs so long as the kids they were responsible for were “parked” with a foster placement and off their hands. It became too soul destroying to fight against a system constantly for these kids to get the help and support they needed when SWs DGAF.
We did for 10 years but in the end we had to put our own family first. Still in contact with most of our “kids” and a couple of decent SWs & lawyers became friends
We used to foster and stopped because of the lack of care that social workers had for the kids and families. Our family didn’t matter to SWs so long as the kids they were responsible for were “parked” with a foster placement and off their hands. It became too soul destroying to fight against a system constantly for these kids to get the help and support they needed when SWs DGAF.
This is the exact reason we stayed and dug in our heels.
We did for 10 years but in the end we had to put our own family first. Still in contact with most of our “kids” and a couple of decent SWs & lawyers became friends