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Foster Parents
Foster parents are parents who take care of a fostered child, on either a short-term or long-term basis. This can be a formal legal placement or an informal one arranged between the biological and fostering parents.
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Weeks turned into months and a year passed, but I didn’t miss my parents. I missed the memory of them. I assumed that part of my life was over. I didn’t understand that I was required to have an attachment to them, to these people I barely knew. Rather, it was my understanding that I was supposed to switch my attachment to my foster parents. So I acted on that notion and no one corrected me, so I assumed that what I was doing was good and healthy.
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― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
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Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
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― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
