I was watching the news today and they had their Wednesday child special segment. Wednesday’s child is featuring kids that are in the foster care system that are waiting for a forever family. The two today were nine year old twins that had been in foster care for a while. They were sweet, intelligent and caring kids. When the little girl was asked what she wanted her answer was a family to love her. Now I am sucker for kids but they were so darn cute.
They loved each other and the only family criteria she had is that she gets adopted with her brother. Now you may think that being adopted together is a given but in reality it does not matter all the time. For instance when we were put in for our two sons and the CPS worker met with our social worker and another woman’s social worker the CPS worker wanted to separate the brothers.
The reasoning that the case worker gave to split them up was; it would make two families happy instead of just one, the other woman put in for them was an African American woman who only wanted our African American bi racial son. Now the logic here was frightening because if you have a family willing to adopt a sibling group race should not matter. The siblings should be kept together whenever possible.
The kids in the foster care system want very few things. They want a safe home and a loving family that they can call their own. Now I know most people want to adopt a baby and that is why there are so many older children in the foster care system but an older kid deserves a family to love as much if not more than a baby. A baby does not go to school where kids talk about their families, where they have to do projects about their lives at home. A baby does not have to go and change schools if the foster home you are in is changed an older child in foster care has to go through all these things and so much more.
If you are a foster kid who do you make a Mother’s Day card for?
Consider adopting an older kid you will not regret it.