http://foster-care.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/questions-about-siblings-relationships 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/questions-about-siblings-relationships/comment-page-1#comment-563 condo-mom Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:16:33 +0000 http://foster-care.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/02/07/questions-about-siblings-relationships#comment-563 Thanks for explaining. It's good to know what's happening in other states, although I don't live in Colorado. I agree that foster children have already suffered many losses in life, and don't need to lose contact with their siblings. But I feel for families who are trying to help a child choose a positive in life, when every sibling visit reinforces the negative. -- Rachel<br /> Thanks for explaining. It’s good to know what’s happening in other states, although I don’t live in Colorado. I agree that foster children have already suffered many losses in life, and don’t need to lose contact with their siblings. But I feel for families who are trying to help a child choose a positive in life, when every sibling visit reinforces the negative. — Rachel

]]> http://foster-care.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/questions-about-siblings-relationships/comment-page-1#comment-562 John Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:47:05 +0000 http://foster-care.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/02/07/questions-about-siblings-relationships#comment-562 Sounds good until it gets to the only decsion makers are the kids themselves. Two of my kids had sibs that were bad news for my sons and for the adoption. One kept spewing stuff about how she dumped her adoptive family and that my son should do that too. The other put another of my sons in direct contact with a very violent birth parent, and gave out our address. Neither kid would have said 'No, I don't want contact.' The decsions maker has to be the foster parent, not the child. Typical political thing, if a little bit is good, a lot has got to be more better. Sounds not so good to me. John Sounds good until it gets to the only decsion makers are the kids themselves. Two of my kids had sibs that were bad news for my sons and for the adoption. One kept spewing stuff about how she dumped her adoptive family and that my son should do that too. The other put another of my sons in direct contact with a very violent birth parent, and gave out our address. Neither kid would have said ‘No, I don’t want contact.’ The decsions maker has to be the foster parent, not the child. Typical political thing, if a little bit is good, a lot has got to be more better. Sounds not so good to me. John

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