Foster Relationships Novels & Stories

“Explain that to me, Sinclair. I thought you had a family growing up.” “It’s just like it sounds, Adrian. See, sometimes, the state doesn’t have enough room for kids in the system. They rely on families to take kids in and care for them, while they try to find us permanent homes. The state would pay those families for watching over those kids. Sometimes, if a kid is really lucky, the foster home will adopt the kid. I wasn’t that lucky, though.”

They were more like his parents and siblings combined. Looking at the picture once more, he prayed silently that his foster parents would live long to be there for him in the nearest future so he could be there for them too, and for the sake of his cousins…he wouldn’t imagine them being alive with their parents snatched away by death’s ugly hands from them at a very young age like it did to him. It would be very devastating for them as they were very close and a loving family. It was very difficult to find such harmony; especially with the hikes of divorce…he believed their marriage was one ordained by God.

Tash was very apprehensive at the beginning still grieving for her lost parents and the life she had known she was withdrawn and uncommunicative. When Kelly’s parents agreed to foster her, it was new to all of them so Social Services thought it would be for the best to put them on a three-month trial. It was standard procedure for new foster carers to give them the chance to adapt to having these 'problem' children in their homes. It made it much simpler so that if either the Carers or the Child had an issue that could not be worked out they did not get attached and could be moved on without a fuss and upset for either side. Tash was very lucky, Kelly's parents were wonderful and she soon gr