http://foster-care.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/colorado-pass-bill-helping-siblings-in-f Provides information on foster care including adult, respite, and kinship along with resources, struggles that foster parents will face. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:39:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://foster-care.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/colorado-pass-bill-helping-siblings-in-f/comment-page-1#comment-482 John Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:27:13 +0000 http://foster-care.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/02/05/colorado-pass-bill-helping-siblings-in-f#comment-482 Rachel, you are right. There is no guarantee that the sibs will be appropriate for each other or the families. Yes, the parent, foster or adoptive has to be the decsion maker. In the example, the older sister is doing a beautiful job of modeling really bad decsiion making for her younger sister, how is the foster family being evil for saying this is not a good influence? Any non-foster, non-adoptive family would make the same decsion. Lets not confuse best intrest of the child with the child knows best. John Rachel, you are right. There is no guarantee that the sibs will be appropriate for each other or the families. Yes, the parent, foster or adoptive has to be the decsion maker. In the example, the older sister is doing a beautiful job of modeling really bad decsiion making for her younger sister, how is the foster family being evil for saying this is not a good influence? Any non-foster, non-adoptive family would make the same decsion. Lets not confuse best intrest of the child with the child knows best. John

]]> http://foster-care.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/colorado-pass-bill-helping-siblings-in-f/comment-page-1#comment-481 condo-mom Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:54:51 +0000 http://foster-care.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/02/05/colorado-pass-bill-helping-siblings-in-f#comment-481 Is this a trend? Are other states following suit with laws about the rights of foster siblings to see each other? When you say that former foster children were "successful in their fight," who exactly opposed this bill, and for what reasons? If I were a foster parent of children who were adversely affected by visits with their foster sibs, I guess it would be hard to feel positive about visits. What happens in cases where there has been abuse between sibs, or the siblings have a generally unhealthy relationship? -- Rachel<br /> Is this a trend? Are other states following suit with laws about the rights of foster siblings to see each other? When you say that former foster children were “successful in their fight,” who exactly opposed this bill, and for what reasons? If I were a foster parent of children who were adversely affected by visits with their foster sibs, I guess it would be hard to feel positive about visits. What happens in cases where there has been abuse between sibs, or the siblings have a generally unhealthy relationship? — Rachel

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