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Sixteen Foster Children

Foster child? I do not think I could do it. Let me think about it. How much would I get a month? That money could really come in handy. Sure. I’ll give it a go. We are up to three foster children now. two are boys – Henry and William, and the other one I think is a girl. We’ve only had her a couple of months. I have not had a conversation with her yet. We do sit around in the evening with I-pads on our laps, smiling sometimes when we look up. Oh, boy, I feel badly today. The system will pay me almost seven hundred dollars a month to take care of each of the drug babies they have me foster. but we took Henry to the courthouse, where we thought His mother was going to get him back. It did not happen. She has been clean for six month, and has a full-time job but she does not make enough money to feed Henry, because they will not pay her to keep her own son. sad for her, for Henry and for us. We have eight foster children now. We are up to sixteen foster children. Some are a lot older, so they can fix supper. The husband and are making so much money now we have both quit our full-time jobs. We spend a lot of time in the café’s, and coffee houses, eating terrific food, testing it to see whether or not the children might like eating here. Hey! Did I tell you that we are getting two foster babies on Monday? That will bring us to a total of thirty-four foster children. We are invincible!`

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Rhona Mcferran

Date: 12/3/2018 6:03:00 AM

I've heard of people like this, too. So sickening. I'd also wondered why they don't just give the real parents the money instead of foster families (when finances are the only reason they can't take care of their own kids)... It would make so much more sense.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/3/2018 7:33:00 AM

I have a relative - not close - who basically stole a 2 and 3 year old from their mother. Their mother got clean, and kept a job for a year. Took her to court, and sobbed and sobbed on the witness stand because they "proved" she did not make enough to keep her own children whereas my RELATIVE - someone I do not know or speak to really - kind of gloated because she was being paid $1000 a month each to keep them.

M. L. Kiser

Date: 12/2/2018 7:20:00 PM

So sad; the system does not allow for real success at fostering children. Too often, those who make the law, don't think it through. If we could get all involved in putting their heads together to clarify and add fail safe's to laws; things might just improve. Well done.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/2/2018 10:18:00 PM

We need an orphanage. I am ready to run it. With glass walls, so we can all watch each other carefully. I just need the money.

Charles Messina

Date: 12/2/2018 7:34:00 AM

A sad, world we have. One can only hope the children get well taken care of. Nice write, Caren

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/2/2018 9:01:00 AM

It is so sad that money has taken over common sense, decency, religion, and other priorities.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 12/2/2018 12:34:00 AM

No one should be allowed to be a foster parent unless they put their heart into it. So sad that this is a reality often. It is all about the buck and not the child. A polished piece that opens eyes Caren. My eyes are sad! xxoo

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/2/2018 9:02:00 AM

Thank you Connie. I had applied to be one, but I had to answer honestly that I would not mind if a foster child burned up my house or tortured my pets. I said to this interviewer, "You are kidding, right? The ones you take as foster parents answer the other way?"

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 12/2/2018 12:32:00 AM

lovely poem- by more two foster it reached to the wings of thirty-four foster! //// amazingly described

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/2/2018 9:03:00 AM

Thank you. I do know one family who was up to 17. The parents were as large as my current house, and always ate out.We never saw a child with them, and they quit their jobs also.