We often hear about the many foster children needing permanent homes.
Babies are mentioned and even the words "Its just like adoption" This has meant for a number of couples sitting on the adoption pool or caregivers wanting to raise a child as if their own a dream could at last come true. The thoughts of the hassles and often disruptions caused by normal cases of children in care could end and be replaced with a far more secure situation or where a childless couple or one just wanting another addition to it, waiting, will end quickly by this form of 'adoption', builds the couples excitement.
For others reading or hearing about this opportunity it sends them off quickly to Child Youth and Family to discuss this and join others in the start of this happy process. In doing so the numbers of available caregivers grows for the department if they pass the needed checks etc. Numbers growing that normally would not be there as available foster caregiver numbers are often very low.
During the first stages of induction beautiful photos of children are put up on a large screen while the social worker reads out a well written advertisement of each child's abilities and needs. Issues are often not heard as bright eyed families open their hearts to the children represented by beautiful demo/model photos (not the childs photo to protect privacy). Much could be said for love at first sight.
The unspoken pitfalls of
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