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How the Biological Parents are Affected 

After researching how children are affected when placed into foster care, I decided that for my third move, I would look more into how their parents are affected as well. I have never truly thought about how the biological parents felt, but after reading about it, I realized that they are affected just as much as their children are. Because of my involvement with foster care, I have seen how some biological parents act first-handedly. Many of the parents of my foster siblings never made much of an effort to see their child; however, some would consistantly show effort in trying to get their child back. All parents react differently to their child being in foster care, and I think it comes from how long they have been in the system, and how hard the parent wants to work to gain custody again. 

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In order to call the foster care system successful, foster parents, relatives, and social workers must help the birth parent(s) become the legal guardian of their child again. Without our help, the foster care system would be breaking up families rather than help those families reunite. When you sign up to become a foster parent, you are not signing up to help the child, you are signing up to help that family. 

"Foster parents are taught about the things children feel when experiencing loss...Yet we are not always taught that birth parents go through their own grief cycle."

-Donna Foster

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