Other Peoples Children: Foster Care Revealed, Paperback

Other Peoples Children provides a look into the often misunderstood world of foster care. In story after story it tells the truth both good and bad about foster parenting and foster children. It provides insight about the issues you may encounter when working with the DSHS system. It provides thoughtful advice about parenting teens and children who have experienced loss and trauma..It gives guidance for new foster parents about how to deal with children who have Oppositional Defiant Disorder, who are Drug Effected or have Fetal Alcohol Effect.

Each chaper begins with a letter written by a foster child, which provides an opportunity to hear the voices and gives a face to children in care.