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My brother and his wife fostered many children over the years. They mostly fostered infants, such as a 6-week-old who was thrown out the 3rd floor of an apt building by her mother.
They had three kids whose mom decided to go out of state for a week. She took all their clothes with her so they would not leave the house and left them. They ran out of food when she stayed longer.
The oldest (9) went hunting through trash cans for food barefoot and naked on a MN January night. The youngest was 4. It was their 6th time in foster care.
Then their own kids got a totally unwelcome lesson when an 11 year-old girl came to stay and told them all the things they had to do for daddy. She had been taken into care for neglect, CPS did not know she had been molested.
Anyway, these are some of the less horrific stories. A nice story is of an autistic boy whose mom would reach the end of her tether, feeling like she would hurt him, so she would call CPS and get a two-week break more or less and then he could go back home.
He stayed a couple times a year every year. His mom had abused him which brought him to the attention of CPS, but they worked with her and used foster care to give her much needed relief.
CPS worked with the mom to keep the family together. That 6 week-old infant went back to her mother, too, though that was disturbing. The young girl molested by her father was sent to her mother in another state. They fostered 4 boys whose parents died in a fire...until CPS
found a family willing to adopt 4 boys. That was almost 2 years. They ended up adopting the 3 girls who were abandoned because no one would take all three. With so many nieces and nephews, what's three more? I talk to the youngest three or four times a week.
