At Issue with Mark Welp
What Makes Someone a Good Foster Parent?
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Money and a big house don't make a good foster parent. Cathy Newbury explains what does.
What does it really take to become a good foster parent? Cathy Newbury says it isn't wealth or an impressive home. Successful foster parents need empathy, understanding and a willingness to listen without judgment, especially when children arrive angry, confused or struggling to understand why they were removed from their homes.
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At Issue with Mark Welp is a local public television program presented by WTVP
At Issue with Mark Welp
What Makes Someone a Good Foster Parent?
Clip: Season 4 Episode 2 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
What does it really take to become a good foster parent? Cathy Newbury says it isn't wealth or an impressive home. Successful foster parents need empathy, understanding and a willingness to listen without judgment, especially when children arrive angry, confused or struggling to understand why they were removed from their homes.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- What in your opinion makes a good foster parent?
Because you can obviously- - Yeah.
- Be well off, have a nice house and- - That means nothing, no.
It means someone who is empathetic, who's understanding, willing to open your home and listen to a child, listen to the bio parents as much as you can, be willing to help them and not be judgemental.
Sometimes the kids come in and they're angry at you because they think you took them and you have to realize that they have the right to be angry.
A lot of them, even teenagers are like, "I don't understand why I was taken away."
This is what they grew up with, they don't really know that it's any different, so you have to be understanding, openhearted.
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