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Are we sure that is the foster mother's fault? Plenty of foster kids enter foster care with issues brought from past traumas.Found this video with new info.
"Since November, there have been seven [911] calls to the home on Legion Lane." Foster mom had called 911 complaining about a 10-yr-old removing ornaments from xmas tree & yelling. Also called to report her foster children running away. MB's 15 yr old sister Jania called a month ago asking to get out of that foster home. Police told her they couldn't help with that and she said if they didn't get her out of that house she was going to kill someone.
Something was NOT right in that foster home.
Some screenshots with quotes from the video.
Hearing that a few of her foster kids ran away or begged to be moved out does not necessarily mean she was a bad foster mom. IMO
One of my closest friends was a Foster mom for 30 years. She lived across the street and I was in her home hundreds and hundreds of times, often unannounced. She was loving and nurturing and had a great sense of humour. MOST of her kids grew to love her and every Christmas she received calls, letters and visits from former kids of hers.
But she had a dozen or more 'runaways' and several kids who begged to get out of her home. I think because she had expectations and made some requests of them---manners, politeness, personal responsibility in the home. Some kids really really hated her requests and rebelled aggressively.
I'd like to see how any of us would do trying to love and care for a home full of teens that were taken from the families...it is not an easy task.
Many of my friends former foster kids are now happy and successful. Sadly, some are less so, and some are homeless or in jail. That makes her feel like a failure and I always tell her it is not her fault. She did her best to offer them all a safe, stable home life, and the rest is up to them.
