
COURT ANXIETY: FROM A FOSTER PARENT'S PERSPECTIVE
I'm writing this literally from within the trenches of court anxiety. Big Sis and Little Sis have been with us for 16 months tomorrow -- 487 days. We love them dearly. They are our daughters, but not legally. Not yet. Maybe not ever. We literally have no say in the matter. When they first came to us, we were adamantly doing what we could to help their family reunify. That's the whole reason we became foster parents -- was to reunify families. Now, we're pursuing adoption beca