Week 226: Marriages and Foster Parenting
Please join us this week in praying for marriages in which couples are involved in foster care. Couples who choose to be foster parents are choosing an honorable endeavor, but, like any worthwhile endeavor, foster parenting can bring significant challenges to a marriage. One of those challenges is the demand on time. Most foster parenting situations require meetings with counselors, agencies, teachers, birth-parents etc. These requirements take time and necessarily cut into the time a couple may be accustomed to spending with each other. Making the most of this decreased couple-time is a challenge requiring creativity and commitment. Another challenge is the emotional investment required to parent a child who likely will be experiencing some level of dysfunction because of his/her previous home situation. Dealing with the child’s biological parents, who likely will not be satisfied with their child being removed from thei...