It also means foster families are needed more than ever, in every neighborhood, including yours. If you have ever considered being a foster parent, call today. It provides a new approach to the issues surrounding children in foster care and their families. Foster parents may be single or married, and may have children of their own. Day care assistance may be available for some foster children Benefits to the child.
Foster families work closely with the child's biological family.
Children are placed in or near their own neighborhood and have contact with their birth parents while in foster care. This makes the experience less traumatic, and the reunification less stressful. Benefits to the birth parents . Because the birth parents meet and interact frequently with the foster parents, they see the foster parents as advocates and role models. Birth parents stay more involved in their child's life and continue to parent while their child is in care.