Hi
I know heaps of good stories with excellent outcomes all i am saying is be prepared for when things go wrong.....
Luv Deb

HI

Foster care for children is a wonderful thing there are always placements wanted for children/teens. If you contact your local Department of Health and Human Services you can apply to offer fostercare. Im not sure what state you are in, but things like home checks ie. safety, room space are all taken into consideration, so are the needs of your own children. You also have to undergo a police check. well worth contacting your local DHHS. One of the best things you can offer a child is a stable environment

thanks i will look into it

Hi
Do it for the love of children nothing else cause if you do it for any other reason you will be sadly dissapointed...be prepared to be abused and threatened  and live a life of hell.....
I have had 2 very close friends pull out from foster care because they have realised in the end that they were providing a haven for mums to dump their kids on them and then when they get them nice and stable without mum having to be stable they are ripped out of your home and given back with you know full well they are going to be beaten once again......one of my friends had "her children" for 5 years one of them was 3 months old when she got him and with 2 nights notice they were taken from her and handed back to the alcoholic druggie abusive mother.   With no supervision nothing...she had seen her kids 4 times in 5 years.  
She then got lots of abusive phone calls saying she had kept all their belongings......she had sent with them what she had brought as theirs and the toys and clothes that she had brought  for all foster kids that she had she didn't send
She got a call from child safety saying they were going to charge her with theft of the kids belonging if she did not return everything they had brought over the 5 yearsincluding all clothes they had grown out of and her own sons bike that he had grown out of so she gave it to one of the younger kids to ride until they brought him a new one for xmas.....this was one week before xmas. 
She got the kids with the clothes on their backs.
But as far as the dept was concerned they had been paid money to raise these kids so everything should go with them......
The mother had been watching the house and there was a list of which toys she wanted.......saying they were all her kids stuff.....
How do you prove it was not brought for your child......
With the money you get for each child eventually you are lucky it is enough to feed them let alone buy heaps of luxuries.....
Most comes out of your own pocket......but in the end it is classed as theft if you keep any of it....
They are in the process of taking the case higher....as they had to hand over everything on the list even though a lot of it was her kids stuff......all they were asked was did you buy it in the last 5 years.....
But this hopefully is a more isolated case.....than the norm.....we can at least hope
Because my friend dared to speak up she has been treated very badly by the department whereas before this happened the sun shone out her butt as she never said no to any kid.....regardless of age and room ....
Now she refuses ever to foster again.....
As she can't do her job properly of protecting the kids
Luv Deb

really thats bad i new doc's was like that

maybe they are the same i thought foster care was a palce where they go before they found them a home i didn't relise it was like doc's cause i have friends that have doc's kids and yeah pretty bad not only that they reccomend you don't take them anywhere just incase someone see's the child very interesting