Fostering and Adopting Children in Foster Care

Over half a million children are in the US foster care system. Long time foster parent, Kathy Harrison, author of Another Place at the Table, talks about what it takes to be a foster parent and how to adopt from the foster care system.

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What is the general picture of the foster care systems?
Open adoption in the foster care system
Foster care vs. foster-to-adopt
Are foster care systems receptive to foster families that want to adopt?
How should larger families deal with the prejudice they encounter in adopting from foster care?
How do you cope with the lack of control over what happens to the foster child in your home?
Reimbursement rates for foster families
The lack of respect for foster families
How do foster children affect the family’s permanent children?
Why is there a scarcity of foster homes?
How do people choose to become foster parents?
How are families and children matched in the foster-to-adopt program?
Homeschool and foster care
What is the risk from unstable birth families?
Is it possible to specialize in fostering a certain type of child (children with physical handicaps, sexually abused children)?