19/06/2025
"Every child deserves to be loved, nurtured and kept safe. It's such a privilege to be able to offer that to a child who I didn't birth. However I want to remove some myths about children in care.
A phrase that often gets said is 'how can they not want them' Let me assure you that most parents do want and love their children. It may sometimes be displayed differently to how we expect but they do love and want their children.
They are not monsters with no feelings, there are various reasons for children to be in care but it's not our place to judge.
Another thing that people say to me is 'I couldn't do it, I'd get too attached.'
Well good that's kinda the point. These children need that attachment, it's not wrong to love them. Yes it's hard to say goodbye but I don't find it any easier than you would.
At the end of the day it's about them not me.
Through those months of loving these little ones, it's building a foundation in which to build their life on.
Fostering really is rewarding if you allow it to be."
Thanks to a foster carer for the above words.
