It’s not just adults who have misconceptions about foster care. Children often do as well, but they are quick to come to a compassionate and clearer understanding. “Turn a tear into a smile.” It was written in bright pink magic marker, sandwiched between a drawing of a crying blue faced moon and a bright yellow […]
Foster care lies: sometimes they focus on the foster children, sometimes on the foster parents, but many are focused on demonizing the birth parents of children in foster care. These falsehoods are an all-too-common belief of the public, and sometimes, foster and adoptive parents themselves. Children are never placed in foster care through any fault […]
Some myths about foster care are more shocking than others. The ones that amaze us the most? Misconceptions about foster kids and the reasons they’re in care. Too often society loves to “blame the victim” for their plight. Foster kids enter care as victims of parental abuse or neglect; the kids themselves have nothing to […]
Surprising Foster Care Myths Debunked Foster Care Myths[/caption]Foster care organizations like ours have heard it all about foster parents – the good, the bad and the ugly. But even we’re surprised at some of what’s being said these days. Have you ever heard these common (and sometimes crazy) foster care myths? Foster Parents Are “In […]