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How (and Why) to Become a Foster Parent

By Benjamin J. Dueholm — 2020

The licensing process – and the training, home visits and court dates – can be intimidating. Here’s what you need to know.

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A Modern Mom: Advice for Prospective Single Foster Parents

How does a single foster mom make it work? Justin and Amy answer FAQ’s about single parenting as a foster mom in 2016.

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2016
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The Foster Parenting Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home

The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years’ experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents.

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John DeGarmo
2025
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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting Wounded Children without Losing Your Self

Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you’re parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.

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Jennie Lynn Owens
2025
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Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family.

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Deborah Gold
2018
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories.

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Cris Beam
2014
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What No One Tells You Before Becoming a Foster Parent

So you complete your foster care pride training and you are a new foster parent. It is hard to describe those first few experience and feelings. Foster Care is a roller coaster and I continue to learn lessons every single day.

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2018
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The Foster Care Journey - Luis and Stephanie See Major Growth in Foster Kids

Luis and Stephanie balance raising their own children while being foster parents.

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2018
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Foster Care Support - How Mindy and Amanda Have Been Able to Be Foster Parents for So Long

Mindy and Amanda have been foster parents for more than five years. They say their family has been successful because of the additional support and team approach they receive through a Foster Plus agency.

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2018
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Taken into Foster Care, Through the Eyes of a Child

Before she was an inmate, Michelle Voorhees was a kid in foster care. Painting a vivid picture, Voorhees asks you to imagine the harrowing, disconcerting experience of being removed from your own home.

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2020
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Fostering Kids: What No One Tells You About Foster Care

Are you ready to be a foster parent? Foster care is not for the faint of heart because foster care children require extra love and care. The foster care system doesn't always prepare you for everything you need to know to get started.

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2020
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