I’m only a few minutes into the interview but wanted to comment about the moving around of foster children so they do not get attached. My wife and I became foster parents in Maryland 18 months ago and here the priority is stability and long term attachment is encouraged. Not all foster parents want long term placements, but I’m not aware of any social worker or foster parent in our system that is not focused on providing stability and trust and attachment. I don’t doubt Rob’s experience but I’m if maybe things have changed since he was in the system or if California does it different. I just don’t want people to think that discouraging of attachment is a blanket practice across the system. Our foster daughter has been with us 13 months and we couldn’t be more attached to her and we are pretty confident she’s attached to us because she’s asking the system to make us her permanent guardians.
Wow! What a great episode. I SO relate to Rob’s biggest defect of character. Over compensating by over working to make up for feeling/being inherently lazy. I don’t think the world would objectively look at me and see laziness, but it’s that internal belief that I really don’t feel that ambitious.
I’m only a few minutes into the interview but wanted to comment about the moving around of foster children so they do not get attached. My wife and I became foster parents in Maryland 18 months ago and here the priority is stability and long term attachment is encouraged. Not all foster parents want long term placements, but I’m not aware of any social worker or foster parent in our system that is not focused on providing stability and trust and attachment. I don’t doubt Rob’s experience but I’m if maybe things have changed since he was in the system or if California does it different. I just don’t want people to think that discouraging of attachment is a blanket practice across the system. Our foster daughter has been with us 13 months and we couldn’t be more attached to her and we are pretty confident she’s attached to us because she’s asking the system to make us her permanent guardians.
Wow! What a great episode. I SO relate to Rob’s biggest defect of character. Over compensating by over working to make up for feeling/being inherently lazy. I don’t think the world would objectively look at me and see laziness, but it’s that internal belief that I really don’t feel that ambitious.
I love this.