Sadly true, Val. I lost two foster children I loved with all my heart because when the mother realized she would not get State support for them anymore – she came and got them. She didn’t want them. I had them for half of the girl’s life. I potty trained both of them and had them in a preschool for children with developmental problems. After she took them…the boy wound up in crime & the girl pregnant and unmarried, just like the mother who had both of them with two different men – never married – got a severe case of STD that thankfully rendered her unable to have more children. She counseled her sister and other young women to get pregnant, never marry, and collect state welfare payments. Losing those children shattered me. Thinking about it shatters me all over again.
Thanks, Val. You are so right. What an awful way to play with life. But I’m still trusting God for a good outcome. Chalet has made some good choices and she’s bright and compassionate. Hoping her example helps her brother.
Stephanie Parker McKean 
What a sad story and what a dreadful dilemma. The whole world is upside down when it comes to what really matters in life.
Sadly true, Val. I lost two foster children I loved with all my heart because when the mother realized she would not get State support for them anymore – she came and got them. She didn’t want them. I had them for half of the girl’s life. I potty trained both of them and had them in a preschool for children with developmental problems. After she took them…the boy wound up in crime & the girl pregnant and unmarried, just like the mother who had both of them with two different men – never married – got a severe case of STD that thankfully rendered her unable to have more children. She counseled her sister and other young women to get pregnant, never marry, and collect state welfare payments. Losing those children shattered me. Thinking about it shatters me all over again.
Oh Steph, that’s awful. What a way to play with life. That must hurt very badly!
Thanks, Val. You are so right. What an awful way to play with life. But I’m still trusting God for a good outcome. Chalet has made some good choices and she’s bright and compassionate. Hoping her example helps her brother.