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Originally Posted by hkolln
She goes everywhere with me (we're actually attached to the hip!) and is treated just as my bio daughter and was treated as if a bio daughter from day one in our home! Now is that because I am related to her? How many foster parents can say they take their kids on all their family vacations?
In fact the entire summer (from end of June 2007 til school started in August 2007) I was on unpaid FMLA leave in order to be here for her during her transition. I stayed home here with her that entire summer 24/7. I did not get paid one dime! Would a foster parent do that for a foster child? Would they sacrifice for a foster child (take time off work without pay)?
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You're joking, aren't you? When Aaron came as a foster child, I took off three months at half pay, and another three months at no pay. I took three months off at no pay for one of my foster daughters, too, because she needed somebody home with her. I stopped my tenure clock for a year---a move that cost me more than $10K in lost wages.
And I've taken almost all my fkids on vacation. When Aaron was a foster kid, we took him to Italy for two weeks, for goodness sake!