Listening to the Turpin foster care suits going on in the courts today just makes my stomach lurch and my mind spin with memories. I will begin by saying that the social workers that worked with me were absolutely professional and proficient in every way.
So here is my short story about my venture into foster care when I already had seven children of my own!!! I had a relative who was a case worker and hearing his story of the great need, I decided to volunteer. I already had baby and children “equipment” like cribs and baby clothes, so I told them I would take infants from the hospital for the six weeks before their adoption finalized. Pure joy!!! I never charged social services and it was a pleasure in many ways. First of all it taught seven little girls that we love everyone, never condemning, never sitting in judgment of decisions, even when they are not one you would make.
We also took children when they were taken away from birth parents until permanent care was available. I couldn’t do long term foster care….I was afraid if I kept them too long, they would be mine and I would never let them go.
So why am I telling you this?? Foster Care is in crisis stages in a lot of our country, so what will happen when children born in all kinds of unfortunate circumstantial enter the system? Besides what the Roe vs Wade decision concerning abortion did for women, remember we are most importantly cutting off birth control access for women who have no other avenue for that.
I pray that all of the passion by proponents of the Supreme Court decision is transferred to that child born into a world, unappreciated, without resources for living in that world. We must open our hearts and our lives to make sure what we have legislated is better than the alternative for those children. Watch the Turpin case if you can stand to do so.
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