Saturday, February 18, 2012

Very Surprised!!! - Adoption.com Forums

I foster my niece (6) & nephew (3). We really have never had any family issues, other than my older half sister. Our family is quite large and we all live quite close together. When I heard my niece and nephew were going into foster care I immediately said I would take them, they're kids and we are family. That's what you do right?

Well it's been 6 months and family members are constantly questioning why i would do this and keep telling me i need to give up and live my life. I to some degree feel pretty isolated from family i once thought I was very close to.

My reasoning to why....people just don't want to be bothered. My sister has had a track record of making people's lives a pain in the butt so they want nothing to do with it (even though it's not the kids fault), she is lazy and others feel they don't want to play into that.

Finally, I will end with the fact of how much i love my niece and nephew, but it has been hard adjusting my life. We know we will for sure have them to at least Sept. and have talked about maybe having to be done at that point (put the kids in a 'real' foster home). Not because anything the kids have done, but for the simple fact my sister does not want to make it easy on us, she is doing nothing to help her situation, will not give up custody and this could drag on for quite some time.

So that's my thoughts from a family member perspective. It's just horrible to me the children get punished for their parents mistakes.

Good luck to you!

Source: http://forums.adoption.com/foster-parent-support/400169-very-surprised.html

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