The agency tries to match children with your family s strengths and your choice of sex and ages. Foster parents may be single or married and live in an apartment, mobile home, or house. Whenever the agency is considering placing a child in your home, the child and the circumstances of placement will be described to you, and you will have the right to determine if you will open your home to that child. Foster parents give children the support they need to grow physically, emotionally, educationally, and socially.
Foster families respect the bonds between children and their parents and siblings.
Often foster parents become role models and supports for birth parents while they struggle to make changes in their lives so they can be reunited with their children. Pelzer is the author of several New York Times' bestsellers about his experiences as a child abuse victim, and how foster care saved his life. Nearly 300 foster parents including the Dorseys were honored by the State's Division Family Services for the work they do to help foster children. Pelzer was the keynote speaker at the 14th annual recognition event in Dover.