Adoption-101

When we first signed up to be foster parents we were told that 75% of the children entering the foster system did not go home. We hoped in the beginning that we would be attached to the children and they would be adopted by us. We had 4 children in our home in the first 8-10years we were foster parents, and all of them were reunified with their parents. We thought with the statistics we were given that we would have been adopting at least one of the kids we had in our home. I am not disappointed that the parents of the children complied with the States requirements and the children were returned, we had just hoped that we would be adoptive parents.