My husband and I fostered for about 18 months about 2 years ago. Unfortunately we had some bad experiences, including the last child (Boy 14 yrs) who hit and threatened to rape our niece. Unfortunately we only found out after we had asked the Foster Agency to place him elsewhere and when we told the family he had gone, what he had done. The reason we had asked him to leave was that he had stolen from us for about the 3rd time and the Agency and DHS were doing nothing about it.

Before that we had looked after a couple of great kids too. You just need to be prepared for the best and the worst.