An 8 month old boy and his 1 year old sister have been placed in foster care in Richland Hills, Texas. These two children’s lives have changed due to their family’s involvement in drugs.

The two children were living with the grandmother and mother(she is expecting another baby any day) before being placed into foster care. The grandmother was caring for the 8 month old boy and while in her care, he “accidentally” ingested drugs. The mother returned home and noticed something was wrong with the boy and took him the emergency room, where he was later transferred to a local children’s hospital.

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Foster children that are illegal immigrants are leaving the system without checking into the possibility of receiving their green cards. Then they become adults with a limited future. By not having legal status they will face problems with education, employment concerns, along with being deported.

Some neglected, abandoned and abused foster children are eligible for legal residency under federal law. They have to be dependents of the state, under the age of 21 and unmarried. Not every child that applies will receive their green card. Any national can apply. The children could have been brought to the United... more

This is for the children that do not have a voice. The ones that drugs were their beginning.

When you abused your body and mind, you also did it to me. While you created me, you were also destroying parts of me. As you carried me in your womb, you left me scarred and battered by your negative choices.

As you went on that high of “meth” time and time again, my tiny developing body was forced to go along. Each time you got “high” part of me was destroyed and not allowed to develop. The “meth” affected whatever was developing at the time of your “highs”; my brain, my organs, my nervous system.

As you received pleasure from your “high”, my little body was shaking,... more

Some foster children can be successful in therapeutic care rather than the basic foster care. Foster children who continually struggle with behavior problems, mental illnesses, mental retardation, and many countless failures and disruptions in basic foster children can end up in a therapeutic foster placement or treatment care.

A high school boy named Patrick was placed in a therapeutic foster home due to his behaviors instead of being placed in a juvenile facility. After finding the right placement for this boy he has improved. Patrick is turning into a teenager that is learning... more

Should adoption only be an option for children that have suffered abuse? What about the thousands of children in foster care and worldwide that suffer neglect? What should their fate be? Not every child in foster care has suffered abuse. A number of them fall under the term neglected. Neglect is a huge umbrella that a whole host of things fall under.

Neglect can be a parent not having their children seen by a doctor or receiving immunizations, a child with eczema left untreated to the point the child’s skin is bleeding, or not giving your child prescribed medication. A little boy had been born with a malformed penis that needs surgery to function normally. It was not painful... more

Foster children that are stuggling with behavior issues or that come into foster care without any parent involvement will need to have realistic expectations set for them. As the old saying goes, “You have to crawl before you can walk.” Understand how important this is for the children you're fostering.

As foster parents, it can be overwhelming when you get children or teens placed with you that have “NO” self control, manners, self help skills, hygiene, thoughts of others, or you are deal with aggression, violence, destroying property, hurting animals, cursing, outburst of rage,... more

Setting up realistic expectations of foster children can make them or break them. When you work with therapeutic foster care this is something you learn to understand pretty fast. These children have to feel like they can accomplish things but the reality is that that most of them cannot meet the expectations that we set for our birth children or other children.

Some of these foster children have suffered so much that they struggle with their emotions, anger, how to communicate with others, depression, rage, etc. that they struggle to maintain any sort of appropriate behavior. Setting unrealistic expectations is setting the child up for failure and can lead to behaviors to continue... more

In foster care you hear so many negatives about children that struggle with life long issues. Children get lost in the system, and on, and on. It is easy to get caught in all the pain and heartache that comes with foster care. There are successful foster children and others that have learned to manage their pain, grief, and struggles in life they have faced.

A former foster child is working towards making foster care better for other children. Lily did have her fair share of struggles in foster care but she chose to work hard and overcome them. She was like many other foster teen and dealt with multiple placements.... more

The truth is that not every person is cut out to be a foster parent. We all have should have some responsibility for the foster children. Some of us can make an ongoing commitment that will involve our time like tutoring, big brother or sister, child advocate, etc. While with others time can be a factor, and they just do not have extra time. You do not have to make a major financial commitment either to help foster children in care.

Even something as easy as purchasing a duffle bag, suitcase or a pair of pajamas can be a great way to help the children in foster care. Theses are not things that will break your pocketbook either. Below, you will find some ways, and other ideas to... more

A father of an 11 month old boy that was abandoned earlier this month in a hospital parking lot in Delaware is facing charges on child endangerment and abandonment. The police are also looking into the disappearance for the toddler’s mother last seen June 7 with her son and boyfriend. The last time she was heard from was June 8, her six year old son that lives with his father talked with her.

The boyfriend is being called a person of interest by police. Police are still investigating whether... more