Children are placed in foster care every day. There is a need for people to learn more about foster care and the needs of the children, youth and families impacted by the child welfare system.

1. Foster Care
Common Misconceptions
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2. Common Misconceptions
Foster parents care for children just
to get the money or they must be
saints to take in other people's
children.
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3. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth who are placed
in foster care are always grateful
that you are taking them in.
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4. Common Misconceptions
Foster parents have legal custody of
the children and youth placed in
their care.
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5. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth who are placed
in foster care are always reunited
with their parents and other family
members.
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6. Common Misconceptions
All children and youth placed in
foster care act out and have
significant behavioral health ISSUES.
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7. Common Misconceptions
The parents of children placed in
foster care are bad people who have
done bad things to their children.
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8. Common Misconceptions
Foster parents are able to make a
living raising children placed in the
foster care system.
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9. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth who are placed
in foster care are always ungrateful
that you are taking them in.
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10. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth placed in foster
care don’t care about or miss their
parents and other relatives.
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11. Common Misconceptions
Only the children and youth placed
in foster care learn from the foster
care experience.
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12. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth placed in foster
care go to live with people they
don’t know or who are not
biologically and/or socially related
to them.
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13. Common Misconceptions
Foster parents don’t get to choose
the type of child or youth who will
be placed in their care.
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14. Common Misconceptions
Children and youth in foster care
never have a say about the type of
family into which they will be
placed.
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15. Common Misconceptions
Parent – Child Connections are
always severed when a child or
youth is placed in foster care.
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