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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think that some form of supported housing---where you and your mom lived in a 4 unit building where 3 units were families and the 4th was a social worker---would have been better?[/quote]

I am the former foster child. If the other three families were drinkers I think there would have been some mega parties going on in that building! However, that is the sort of non-conventional thinking we need for these problems.

As a follow-up, I lived with my mom full time after about age 10. A social worker visited us weekly for another year or so and then she disappeared. I am 50 years old and I remember that social worker very well. She was the only normal adult in my life and I really looked forward to her visits. She was like an auntie to me.

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So we have 2 former foster kids on here - I’m the poster from 9:28 and haven’t posted since - so we have different experiences.  (Hi FF PP, nice to find other people who have gone through this.  Not something we talk about.).  So, to answer this question from my perspective, our housing was all provided by family members.  They would cover rent, and we moved every few years every time mom would trash a place.  My mom has never held a job as far as I can recall.  What is being proposed wouldn’t have worked for us because we would have gotten thrown out.  Her screaming, hoarding, whatever...  unfortunately there just aren’t answers that work for everyone.  And unlike PP, I did not like the social workers.  They scared me because I was taught to scare them (I was told I’d get out in a home where they would starve and hurt me.  Yes, really).  [/quote]

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