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Originally Posted by stevenstwin
Sorry if you are offended by my choice of the word "naive". I'm offended by your description of the only parents a child has had for most of their young life as just "nice people who took care of you.". Phht. I took care of my fs and put heart and soul into everything it took to heal some emotional and psychological disorders that no one in his birth family would touch, or was the least bit qualifed to tackle. But ya better bet when the work is done they want to reap the benefits.
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Foster parents volunteer to do this job. Is it to help the children or is it for themselves? Is the foster care system a "try before you buy" program? Is an adults need/wish for a family the primary reason for fostering?
Reaping the benefits? So it wasn't for the child, it was for the "benefits"? It surprises you a birth family could not care for a child with special needs? What kind of families do you think lose their children to social services? If they were functional, capable people, they wouldn't have lost the child in the first place.
The "right" to fulfill the desire to have a child, to have a family ends at the child's right to be reunited with their birth family whenever possible.
Too often that cannot happen, the birth family cannot care for a child. Thank goodness for the foster families in those cases.