If the two of you decide to be foster parents, make sure that you have these needs met.
What You Need as Foster Parents:
- Respite care.
- Support network.
- Training.
- Patience.
- Full agreement and cooperation of every member of your family about being foster parents.
- Quiet time.
- Communication skills with one another, with your foster children, and with your foster children's case worker.
- A lock on your bedroom door.
- Ability to say "no" if the lifestyle hurts your marriage.
- Continue to nurture your own marriage relationship.
