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Just Say “No”

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We had a call yesterday for a 17 year old girl - according to her case manager, she’s a habitual liar.

Ummmm…no.

I say this for a reason. If we were to take her in and I had to leave for the evening, for whatever reason, she could say that Scott molested her, and our own children would be taken away while we waited for a formal investigation.

Helping children is great - including your own. Sometimes you have to say “no” in order to protect your kids. Your kids come first, or else you could end up having them be in foster care.


Posted in Foster Kids, Foster Parenting, General, Social Workers, biokids, bioparents on June 12th, 2007

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  1. Amanda Says:
    June 13th, 2007 at 7:03 am

    Good for you that you said no. My old boss was a this gay guy and him and his life partner were foster parents and didn’t seem like they could say no and ended up with some kids who were just awful. I’m like you ended up adopting some of your other foster kids that came through you have to think about them now before you say yes to the next case

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