Ways you can help foster families

Do you have friends who are foster parents? Are you looking for easy ways to make a big difference in their lives as they shoulder the burden of caring for someone else's abused or neglected child?

The graphic on the right has a few suggestions. Here are a couple more, born of my personal experience as a foster father. Do these, and I guarantee your friends will never forget, no matter how many years pass.

 * Tell them you’re too busy to watch the kids so they can keep a doctor’s appointment. 

* Leave them to deal with case termination on their own after promising to stick with them the whole way through. 

* Drop out of their lives because you’re leaving the church they also attend. 

* When they’re grieving the loss of a child you can tell them to get over it. 

* Be sure to reprove them for a lack of faith. 

 And after all that, motherfucker, you can just go to hell. By that point it’s the most helpful thing left to do. 

The wounds we get from those we consider friends often still hurt years later. Some never heal.


Copyright © 2020 by David Learn. Used with permission.


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