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“I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.”

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“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse.”

Motherhood Raising Children Foster Care

Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.”

Memoir Coming Of Age Foster Children Foster Care

Book:Three Little Words

Source: Three Little Words

“I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.”

Family Abuse Foster Care

Book:Dare You To

Source: Dare You To

“That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.”

Parenting Adoption Family Relationships Foster Care Psycology Deborah Beasley

Book:Successful Foster Care Adoption

Source: Successful Foster Care Adoption

“We have the opportunity to pour into them what they were created to be; and pullout the treasure that they cannot yet see.”

Adoption Free Foster Care Childrens

Book:The Fostered Egg- JourneyOf Destiny: The Journey Of Destiny And A Forever Family

Source: The Fostered Egg- JourneyOf Destiny: The Journey Of Destiny And A Forever Family

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” -Leigh Anne Tuohy”

Adoption Children S Books Foster Care

Author:Leigh Anne Touhy

“The one piece of advice I always give is this: become a foster parent because you want to help the child. Not because you expect the child to think of you as their mother or father. Or to love you for the rest of their lives. They might never love you. But you have to do the very best you can for them at all times, no matter what. Fostering is one of the few jobs where your ultimate goal is not to be needed anymore.”

Children Foster Care

Author:Rio Hogarty

“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.”

Foster Children Foster Care

Author:Winston Churchill

“You are mine for a moment, but you are His, forever His.”

Parenting Foster Care

Book:I Couldn't Love You More

Source: I Couldn't Love You More

“Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of very young children as well as children of elementary school age. I experienced many different feelings as I read the book and I know otehrs will experience the same thing. The guide to further discussion at the end of teh book will be most helpful as foster parents read this story to the children in their care.”

Emotional Children S Books Foster Children Children S Literature Foster Care

Book:Sunny

Source: Sunny

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