Category: Foster Care

• My First Experience with Foster Care

  The following tale is about my first introduction to the horrors of foster care. This took place some 40 years ago, but nothing has changed. The antiquated thought processes are still in place. The workers and judges insist that the child is a possession of the biological parents, no matter what. REUNIFICATION? Here’s a sad […]

  annla1441

  July 6, 2021

  Adoption, Children Adoptions, Legal issues adoption, social work issues

  Foster Care, international adoptions, Reactive Attachment Disorder

• Foster Care Trauma and Adoptions

  

  On a prior post, I said I’d do one on the foster care system at a later date. Well, this is that later date. For the last 11 years I’ve been the social worker with Wasatch International Adoptions’ Second Chance program. What does Second Chance do? We do secondary placements of international and domestic foster […]

  annla1441

  January 9, 2021

  Adoption, Children Adoptions, social work issues

  Foster Care, international adoptions