Are you ready to become a foster parent?

A foster family is the guardianship or custody of a child whose real parents have been deprived of their rights to upbringing or have died. Children left without a family live and are brought up in state institutions. Of course, it is difficult for a child to grow up happy outside of a family, which means he or she needs loving parents more than anything else. However, not everyone has the ability to adopt a child from an orphanage.

Foster parents take on a double burden: the child is not their own, with their own characteristics, and in order to take him or her into the family, it is necessary to know exactly why you decide to take this step. Adoptive parents should know approximately what they can expect during the period of adaptation of the child, what are the peculiarities of adopted children who have been in state institutions, and how to better communicate with such children.

The traumas experienced by the child make him or her behave and feel the world in a special way. With the vast majority of children from orphanages, building warm relationships will require a lot of effort and knowledge. You need to be prepared for this.

Future foster parents must be trained at the Foster Parent School (FPS), which provides the necessary knowledge:

• how to prepare for foster parenting;
• what the trauma of losing for a foster child is and how to live through it;
• how the experience of deprivation and abuse can manifest itself;
• what developmental characteristics an orphan child has;
• what competencies and qualities foster parents need to possess.

We offer you to take a 30-question test, thanks to which you will be able to find out whether you could become a foster parent and take a child from an orphanage into your family. Read the statements and choose the answer that is closest to you.