Children Are Not Hyphenated Humans
This is an excerpt from a rough draft of our monthly newsletter. If you'd like to receive our monthly newsletter or join our support team, click here ! This month I'm reflecting on a meeting we had with a foster family where we reflected on the stigma that our culture applies to children in foster care. Especially in the ‘foster care world’ of mentoring relationships and foster care support networks, there are a lot of diagnoses - legitimate concerns about children that have been neglected or abused or have been at risk at any point - and it often is the topic of conversation when foster care comes up. Sarah and my approach has always been that the children in foster care are children first. During our meeting with this foster family, they let us know that it was a great comfort to them to remember our perspective as a family. It's easy to get worked up emotionally about the injustices in foster care and how they affect real people. There are so many, and t...