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Right, I do agree with what you are saying but it's also an example of perfect being the enemy of good enough. It's an unfortunate situation, but if the barrie
by fullstop 3y ago
Right, I do agree with what you are saying but it's also an example of perfect being the enemy of good enough.
It's an unfortunate situation, but if the barriers are high enough there will be fewer people willing to foster. How many good-enough homes are out there, even if they are not perfect? At what point is the risk of being placed in a less than perfect home worth it?
I have just a few more years until all of my kids are out of the house and living on their own, and fostering children is definitely on my mind. We have already started by hosting foreign exchange students.
- em-bee 3y agoi don't know what the best solution is, for one i think the same is true for adoption, although i hear that in the US (and maybe in most western countries) there are not so many kids needing adoption for that to be a problem. How many good-enough homes are out there, even if they are not perfect? that's actually not what i am concerned about but foster parents that are outright abusive. so basically, i think that even foster kids should only be taken away if they are neglected or abused in such a way that you would even charge native parents with that. the goal should not be to find perfect parents, but to find parents where the kids actually can stay as long as they need to. the barrier to take them away again is to low because it doesn't consider the hurt caused by being "taken away" itself.