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- A special ABC TV Compass Episode on the foster care crisis, September 2013.
As demand for Foster Carers in Australia increases, Compass meets several foster families to learn about the challenges and rewards fostering can bring.
Almost 40-thousand Australian children live in 'out-of-home-care', but already there aren't enough foster homes to go around. Now, foster care providers in NSW are reaching out to previously untapped families; gay couples and single parents among them.
So what does it take to be a foster parent? Who currently welcomes foster kids - many of whom have suffered abuse or neglect - into their homes and lives? Why do they do it, and what are the rewards? At the start of "Foster Care Week" Compass finds out.
Full story & transcript: www.abc.net.au/...
To find out more about foster care: www.fosterparen...
Mickeys foster dads are so lovely and kind.
Shay is a lovely boy so happy he was adopted by a loving wonderful mother
In our city there is a program to keep children safe at home. The parents are ordered to parenting classes and counseling. The classes can minimize the amount of time children are in foster care. Parents need help to ensure the children are cared for when they go home.
Well that's amazing . That's the way it should be. How do I do this. My kids are fostered . I want them home now help us please
Seriously... Why do half these comments hate on foster care? Saying God will hate us for saving kids, gay couples shouldn't do it etc etc etc
Alex Krause those hater comments are from people that are probably uber religious & narrow minded. If I was an abused kid, I wouldn’t care if my parents were gay. All I would want is a home and love. Good for anyone who’s willing to foster, gay or straight.
You're amazing people!!!!
if only there was enough carers out there in this world like you! Im currently in a residential home because there isn't enough carers which is sad but its life hey.. continue what youre doing your amazing x
:)
Wow such beautiful stories, and how lucky are those 3 kids to get placed with such awsome families. I have personally seen a couple of horrific foster carers in the pats one lot pair I even reported and actually stunned me and made me very angry when nothing was done about them, and the child suffered some horrendous abuse. Perhaps things are getting much better, and potential carers are getting screened much better, or at least one can only hope.
I feel so blessed coming from a big Irish family and community. Raised for generations living close to each other. Of course, not without its ‘nosey neighbours, fighting siblings, in-laws bickering, spousal rows’ etc, but all raised understanding 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8. .....So watching these kind of videos, kills me. But seems like all you amazing people who foster are natural nurturers as well who totally get the concept of what Love truly is....I so admire you all 💕💕💕
Wow I just love this story brings tears of happiness to my eyes.
I'm in foster care and I have been to that (beach/park)it has a litter water sprayer area like a water park
I’ve been trying to get my mum to get a foster license but she already has 4 kids! And she’s a single mother. I almost ended up in foster care. My father oded after almost killing my mother, she was in critical condition and was on the brink of dying but she made it. I was lucky
Patricia is such a strong, smart and nice woman. I wish I had had a mentor like her in my life. I'm an adoptive mother of a gorgeous little girl.
Lovely story ✨ I’ve been thinking recently about being a foster mentor now and a parent later on in life. These families have so much love to give 🌷
10 years foster caring, and friend 16 years foster caring rule one make sure you have a good lawyer at hand we had 2 in permanent care one took off and made up lies about our family 10 grand later in lawyer fees, and nearly loosing our biological daughter but it happens all the time too other carers it's not if its when because it will happen, but your never told that in training all they tell you how beautiful the children are some are a little active all BS that's why there screaming out for foster carers because people are leaving at a fast rate.just do your homework because its true
This is so beautiful to see. Bravo!
This is a really great video. We are just starting out on our fostering journey in England and hope to look after teenagers as we are a lot older ourselves. Our training starts soon and we are really looking forward to our new life.
Wishing you the very best. X
10 years foster caring, and friend 16 years foster caring rule one make sure you have a good lawyer at hand we had 2 in permanent care one took off and made up lies about our family 10 grand later in lawyer fees, and nearly loosing our biological daughter but it happens all the time too other carers it's not if its when because it will happen, but your never told that in training all they tell you how beautiful the children are some are a little active all BS that's why there screaming out for foster carers because people are leaving at a fast rate.just do your homework because its true
Having the young daughter was 🔑
the gay couple who foster Mickey are wonderful. What good humans, lovely couple. Wonder if they would be keen adopting a frazzled 59yo officer worker ?
And having a beautiful heart 😍
As a former child of the system...who gives a F**K. There gender, colour or sexually... What really counts is stability security in loving nurturing environment
Why don't U adopt all of them if U think Ur so good
There are many different types of foster care situations. The most common is reunification. Which means the foster parents are working with social workers and the courts to reunite kids with their biological parents. A great deal of these parents are down on their luck and just need some help getting their lives in order; they don't have someone else to take of their children while that happens. When a parent completes all they need to do by court's orders they can be reunified with their kids and in a lot of situations this is the happiest outcome for everyone involved. Children don't want to be yanked from their homes and parents and be told they'll never return unless the parent is abusive.
In other situations the biological parent is not able to do what the courts ask for them and the child can be adopted by a foster parent.
I hope here in Nj they begin allowing lgbt people to be foster parents
The government blames the parent but what bout kids that scram punch swear and ADHD all austict kids who have to be all meds look at the kids two dad's not good
Or though you guys forcefully removed my daughter from me not nice
Send them over seas
Sorry gays
If you notice. Compass run housing as well just like housing commission does. There all linked child trafficking buisness enterprises. Just as facs is . There all connected with Centrelink ECT ECT and rich elites . Buisness men ECT and they as well have rich elite buisness men freinds and family who run their private private franchises like challenge foster care allambi premier housing and even employment agencies like max employment salvos. ECT mission employment and their all in connection with jails police force. And churches It's just one big massive criminal Enterprise. Of curruption. And evil . And God awaits them all for judgement day. And that's a fact . We all gunna die and meet the maker. So beware what you do to make an income because money is the root to all evil . Would you steal somebody's children if you weren't being paid to do it. No you wouldn't. Theirs your answer. The parents would kill you if you tryed steeling their child. So it's obvious. They who steel children only do so because they know they have police protection. Because they work for government ⚜️i©️🤔👁️©️👁️
I have known many kids in foster care or children’s homes, some of them hate their parents, others still love them but just acknowledge that their parents weren’t the kind of people who were meant to have children, but rarely do they say
“I wish I was back to living with my parents”
"if a gay couple can provide them with a steady stable home" Gimme a break, its one form of abuse exchanged for another. A man married to his pet dog can give a steady, stable home but that doesnt mean hes not going to emotionally affect the child. This is the result of a corrupt and liberal nation. Poor kids need a mother and father.
I see you are more upset about homosexual parents more than you are abuse. I would like to inform you more often than not it is their heterosexual parents who abused them in the first place. Also homosexuality is being attracted to the same sex human partner and having a loving relationships which is completely different than having a relationship with an animal. As the video instated kids get lost in the system and those amazing people made the choice to take care of kids when they did not have to.
Kelly Polizzi wow. There is a special place in hell for you my dear
They provide this child with a stable loving home. They are so much better then you.
Please don't reproduce.
coming from a child of the state we actually are appreciative for any foster placemnt other wise we fall through the cracks. anything is better than what our parents could provide us! STFU
Give them to their parents if not God will never forgive u all