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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do foster parents have a choice in which child they want to foster?

Let's say that you want to foster the child of a single parent who is in the army reserve and has been deployed, vs. a child that has been sexually abused and removed from their parent's house- would/could you make that request to social services?

Or if you wanted to take kids who were siblings and did not have any mental or physical disabilities?[/quote]

No. Well, sort of. You can't say you want to foster a military brat. You can say you want placements that'll be longer than a week/month. We once booked a last minute cruise two weeks out and then got called to take in a kid and DH told her we were going on vacation and wouldn't leave any kid living in our house behind, so we'd take him as long as he was definitely only needing a week's care. You can say how many beds you have available. But just because we have two empty beds it doesn't mean we'll turn away a singleton. We are firm in not taking any child older than our youngest child. And we are firm that our house is not physically handicapped accessible. But you can't say "I only want a cute boy - no girls - between the ages of 4-7 whose need for fostering is because their parents are doing something noble." [/quote]

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