Category: Foster Care
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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 […]
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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 […]