Opinion ID: 2011173
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Heading: The Foster Home.

Text: The trial judge made the following findings regarding the foster mother with whom M.D., Jr. was placed and the home in which the two of them now reside: L.L. is a 34 year old trade union secretary, who works for a children's health care organization, who trained as a [FLOC] foster parent.... She describes the daily activities. They are typical events in the life of a working single parent. She gets him up. She gets him ready for day care. She takes him to day care. She makes certain that he's stable and secure where he is, and she goes to work. She picks him up. She feeds him. She reads to him. They play together. And she takes him to bed. On the weekends they play. He is a part of her ... extended family and family activities. They live in a neighborhood of single-family homes with other children in the neighborhood. And they live specifically in a four-bedroom split level, with a playroom for M., Jr. M. spends each day with a day care provider, from 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Ms. L. shares her home with a female cousin, and the cousin's two sons, ages 7 and 12. Ms. L. has, since she had M. in her home, worked diligently with the staff at the National Children's Center and with Dr. V. to assist in improving M., Jr.'s development. On those factual findings, the court concludes that this child appears to be bonded well, both to his natural father, and to his foster mother, but not to his natural mother.