I've thought about it, and once or twice I've actually contacted an agency that my sisters friend put me in touch with.
I spoke to them and they said that whilst they are desperate for foster carers, I didn't fit their mould, because I'm single, not married, don't own or rent my own home and live with friends, etc etc... They gave me so many awful reasons I couldn't look after a child.

And I know fostering is fantastic, I so admire the people who can do it, but at the end of the day, I don't think I'd be able to do it. I mean, I have a tendency to be a very "attaching" person. People, pets, whatever, I love the love, and the feeling and the other being so much, that I feel I can't ever give it up. I dated my boyfriend for almost 7 years and we still see each other every week because I couldn't let go of the attachment completely. We're no longer a couple, but are the closest of friends.

I wouldn't want to be looking after a child, and loving it so dearly, and being so close to it, and then at the end of the time when its all said and done for whatever reason, having to give it back. Everytime it would break me and my heart until I wouldn't ever be able to do it again.