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Originally Posted by blubutterflies03
I figured out per day we are getting between $12-$15 a day to foster. For summer camp alone I came out spending $400 for each child i had out of pocket. I spend alot on gas driving them to camp or daycare and we like to "spoil" our kids and do something every weekend with them. You have to love the children and be in it for THEM....cuz if anybody is making money off of them, gosh, i don't understand.
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Thank you! That is exactly my point, and why I posted the article
My kids (just for the Summer) are in a theater group (every day rehearsal), swim lessons and we try to do special things too -heck, a movie night (at the theater) is easily $50! I make every effort to give my foster kids the same opportunities that I would my bio kid and it gets expensive! I was driving them to and from rehearsal every day (the two older boys) but it was costing me $20+ a DAY!
That is $100 a week, $400 a month.... Sooo... welcome to the wonderful world of public transportation, boys!
One of the things I realized from the article is I thought we had it bad here, in Hawai'i (and our foster board payment has not increased in over 20 years!), but after seeing some of the other states, we are doing OK!