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SpicedMama:
You are new to this and currently only doing this to become a relative placement, as per your post.
It is very easy to say, foster parents are supposed to only be foster parents, etc, etc, but once you receive a placement, they are real. Yes, yes, reunification is the goal always but it still doesn't stop you from loving the person that you are caring for 24/7.
I have a wonderful relationship with the bios of my twins whom we have legal custody of. They have regular visits in which I voluntarily transport them to out of the kindness of my heart and to help the bio dad out.
It looks like, from the posts, that bio families will always resent foster parents and that foster parents are just supposed to take it because that is their "job".
I would just once like a bio family member to say, thank you for taking great care of xyz or thank you for driving 45 minutes to bring xyz to us so that we can save on gas. Mind you, I do not get one dime in subsidy for the three that I have custody of, no medical card, nothing.
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Kim
& DH
PRIDE classes 1/06-2/06
Homestudy-Paperwork 2/06-4/06
Licensed 5/2/06 for 2 (Infant - 5)
First Placement 5/11/06 (9 days later)
Sibling group of three precious angel babies:
E (5) 
Twins:
A (2) 
A (2) 
Sibling group of tow precious angel babies:
Picked up N on May 16, 2007 and M from the hospital on May 17, 2007
N (3)
M (13 months) 
Yep, 5 under 5 and we LOVE it!
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