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fostercarer.com.au
http://www.fostercarer.com.au/
We are Australian foster carers who share our experiences and our advice for other carers. We hope that better information for carers means a better outcome for children in care.
- Author: Fostercarer
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- Tags: adoption foster care children in care foster carer
Recent Posts
National Adoption Awareness Week
We would have loved to highlight the event on this site, but were living the equation (simplified, with sincere apologies to all the mathematicians out there): ...‘There is a perception that Australia has been reluctant to advocate adoption a...
Children need a strong adult relationship
‘We should also, however, recognise that some adults fail to raise their children properly, fail to care for them, and fail to socialise them.’ ...He posted a great article on The Punch today about kids at risk. ...He argues that we s...
Twitter stream to 27-10-09
They are often news reports or research studies that may be relevant to children in care, or to children generally. ...While we try hard to be constructive on www.fostercarer.com.au, you’ll see we have a bit more fun with our tweets. ...Chi...
How foster children respond to stress
By the time I ended up at my first Foster Care home, so much had been taken from me. I no longer had a sense of self, family, belonging, comfort, familiarity, unconditional love, trust, confidence (let’s face it, this comes from stabili...
Agencies\' neglect fatal for Ebony
There are a few circumstances in life where one mistake can be fatal. ...Small children don’t choose to put themselves at risk. ...And our child protection system is set up to monitor, and manage, when parents fail. ... But if the parents ...
Details on children kept from foster carers
‘Thousands of foster carers are welcoming children into their homes without being given the full facts about the children’s past, including whether they were victims of abuse’. We put the link to this Times Online (UK) article on ...
