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When foster care creates competing loyalties

My foster son has been with me for three years and I want to adopt him but his birth mother keeps promising to get clean and I don't know what to hope for.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Foster parenting exists in emotional limbo between temporary care and permanent commitment, creating complex attachment dilemmas.

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