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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parental identity — becoming and losing?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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