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Hawaii's Foster Care Resource

5 Ways to Know You’re Ready to Be a Foster Parent

Follow this link to read a short but important article that does a beautiful job of articulating 5 basic realities of foster parenting.  Written by Solvej Schou, who writes regularly for TakePart,and has also contributed to the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, BBC.com, and Entertainment Weekly.  The story starts with:

“Becoming a foster parent can be one of the most rewarding and loving acts of your life, but it is not an easy decision. Nor should it be.  It takes extensive training, flexibility, commitment, hard work, and a willingness to provide a safe and stable temporary home for children who have been removed from their birth parents’ care by the court until family problems are resolved.”

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