[Setantawife]

I decided to let my coworkers know about our decision to foster/adopt. I have been sharing my journey so far with a few women that I felt would be discreet. I was not expecting a big reaction from people, in fact most acted as I expected them to, and some have pleasantly surprised me.
I have answered their questions about this process as simply as possible, but have also made them aware that I will not be able to share alot of information about the child, but I know once I have a placement, more questions will come.

I would like to know how much information I should and will be able to share with family/coworkers about the child we are placed with. Can I share the child's name? Can I show them pictures? I don't want to be rude, but I also want to make them aware that the child isn't fully mine to share with them.

Any advice?

[jbee]

i don't know if its agency rules or what, but we're not supposed to give details, we can tell the kid's name and age, not why they're in the system, nothing personal, i don't think we're even supposed to say they're a foster kid. everyone we know just knows when someone new shows up what's going on.
the kids can tell people whatever they want. our older ones just tell everybody when they feel like it. or if they're old enough we ask them if we can tell someone something specific (i think it's 14 here?)