fostering

melissak

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The joy After Hours is to assume that every single post is a pisstake.

Ahh. I get it now. I was wondering.... why would people waste their time making piss take statements about serious issues..

melissak

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The joy After Hours is to assume that every single post is a pisstake.

Ahh. I get it now. I was wondering.... why would people waste their time making piss take statements about serious issues..

melissak

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The joy After Hours is to assume that every single post is a pisstake.

Ahh. I get it now. I was wondering.... why would people waste their time making piss take statements about serious issues..

melissak

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The joy After Hours is to assume that every single post is a pisstake.

Ahh. I get it now. I was wondering.... why would people waste their time making piss take statements about serious issues..

cloud493

I find its enough of a challenge to look after one thats related to me, let alone taking on more :P maybe when I'm older and more responsible and have more money.

nathughes

Hi

Myself and my husband are considering it maybe start the process at the end of this year as i would like to have some money saved up. I was wondering will one of us have to give up work completely?? I am wondering because im afraid that we wouldn't be able to support the kid we are fostering as we are both working full time at the moment and the drop of one wage could be a problem.

Nat

SMJSF

nathughes wrote:

Myself and my husband are considering it maybe start the process at the end of this year as i would like to have some money saved up. I was wondering will one of us have to give up work completely?? I am wondering because im afraid that we wouldn't be able to support the kid we are fostering as we are both working full time at the moment and the drop of one wage could be a problem.

the process that's bout 2 years, and at the early stages they will say yes or no if your suitable to become a foster parent.
it depends on the age of the child, or may need a lot of hospital appointments.
you or your partner may need to be free to take the child to family access meetings, counselling appointments, Maybe to different churches or mosks to practice a different religion to yours, etc.

And im not trying to scare you, but you shouldn't be worrying about money, the biggest thing is if your capable of looking after kids who are mentally damaged from abuse and neglect, drug dependant babies, violence, anger issues, etc. are you up for sleepless nights while you stay up and wait for them to return after running away?

I'm a past foster kid who have been with families and a residential unit, I've seen and heard it all!
And most people think it will be easy, but when it's someone else's kid, you have to think how they grew up and what there living conditions were before coming to you.

nathughes

SMJSF wrote: »

the process that's bout 2 years, and at the early stages they will say yes or no if your suitable to become a foster parent.
it depends on the age of the child, or may need a lot of hospital appointments.
you or your partner may need to be free to take the child to family access meetings, counselling appointments, Maybe to different churches or mosks to practice a different religion to yours, etc.

And im not trying to scare you, but you shouldn't be worrying about money, the biggest thing is if your capable of looking after kids who are mentally damaged from abuse and neglect, drug dependant babies, violence, anger issues, etc. are you up for sleepless nights while you stay up and wait for them to return after running away?

I'm a past foster kid who have been with families and a residential unit, I've seen and heard it all!
And most people think it will be easy, but when it's someone else's kid, you have to think how they grew up and what there living conditions were before coming to you.

Thank you so much for getting back to me. Honestly all of what u said doesn't really phase me or scare me its something i really want to do... Personally i would prefer to take on an older child or teenager as i have worked with this age group and my husband currently works as a youth development officer with disadvantaged children so we would both have some training in certain area and also some experience.
With the money i was just worried that we would be able to support the kids while they are with us.

Tarzana2

It's interesting, I find people are very binary on this, very yes/no. I'm a 'no' person. Couldn't do it, wouldn't enjoy it, but have huge respect for people who do it. Whereas my sister has always professed an interest in it. She's newly married and during the time so far that she has been with her new husband, she has still brought it up so I can only assume he's up for it too!

Dog of Tears

I would consider it if the child was Caucasian, blonde and adorably cute.

Would consider a black child only if they had a good catchphrase along the lines of 'Whatcha talkin' bout Willis'.