On August 4, 2018, my children were removed from my home and placed into foster care. My children were 5 and 6 years old; they had never been away from home...
*Note: This post was originally written in June 2019. Whitney mentions part of their foster home licensing involved a lead paint inspection. As of July 2019, […]
"Milestones are important because the past has dictated that at any given time, I can lose everything.
I'm alone and have to make survival a priority."
After reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch, I thought about the birth parents of children in foster care. I searched for a book dedicated entirely to […]
Understanding who our parents are and how they relate to our identity is part of growing up. This fact is particularly true for children who experience foster […]