“I thought I was safe. I really, truly did," are the emotional words of a woman whose traumatic experience in the foster care system in B.C. left her forever changed.
“To this day, I sleep with a knife under my bed,” she said, explaining she has also taken self-defence classes.
Honestly, the people that apply to host foster etc needs to go through psychology checks periodically. Cause people change over time, different env/financial stress will also change how a person respond to future events. Like every hierarchy of the work chain basically, cause what they see, hear and deal with needs some cope mechanism, and sometimes it becomes “it’s not gonna be that worse, right?” Cause they can’t really take it if they dig in, and kids suffers, the workers got slammed, and people go to jail because we don’t check periodically.
Honestly, the people that apply to host foster etc needs to go through psychology checks periodically. Cause people change over time, different env/financial stress will also change how a person respond to future events. Like every hierarchy of the work chain basically, cause what they see, hear and deal with needs some cope mechanism, and sometimes it becomes “it’s not gonna be that worse, right?” Cause they can’t really take it if they dig in, and kids suffers, the workers got slammed, and people go to jail because we don’t check periodically.