Foster carer's children
promoting children's rights
Often when a foster child is placed, the children's privacy will have been invaded, their property might have been borrowed without permission, and they will have struggled at times with having less of their parent's attention.
Luckily, children are resilient and the more they experience foster children from very different backgrounds and with very different needs and behaviours, children who foster come to understand the advantage they have from having a secure and loving family.
As a consequence, children who foster in time learn more patience, tolerance and understanding of others which helps them in their role as children in a family who foster and in their self development towards adulthood.
Foster carers, as any other parents have a responsibility to their children to help them develop as secure individuals in a family environment which provides for their emotional and physical wellbeing.
When foster carers decided to apply to foster, their decision also included their children, because fostering is about all the family.
However, when the foster carers were assessed, their children might not have wanted to tell about their real feelings because of not wanting to let their parents down. This is a common situation which often causes confusion and questions when fostering.
As foster carers know, fostering means making changes in every family member's life, especially for the children who would have had their ideas and expectations challenged by the realities.
Children who foster successfully have had to readjust to sharing their parent’s time and to dealing with their feelings about foster children who at times have challenging behaviours.
Successful foster families will have had regular family chats about how foster children are affecting the family and the carers would have addressed any concerns or questions their children had.
It is therefore imperative that foster carers can exercise their right to transfer to another fostering agency if this change will improve life for themselves and their children who foster.
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