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What Foster Parents Should Know About Emotional Investment

Posted by Janine Porter on Tuesday, October 10, 2017, In : Foster Parent Support 
What Foster Parents Should Know About Emotional Investment
By Jamie Nestrick  

As foster parents, we have to walk a fine line between being 100% emotionally invested in the kids in our care, but not at all attached to any particular outcome.

When I started writing this article, it was titled, “The Dangers of Optimism in Foster Parenting.” As I began to write, though, I realized the problem isn’t optimism—which is a good thing, because I am impractically optimistic and I’ve been failing...

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