re: #269 b_sharp

Are you sure it’s an improvement?

I went to school with a number of foster children over the years. They often get shuttled from home to home, staying anywhere from months to a few years in one place and then moving on.

All of the foster kids I knew, maybe 5 or 6, spent time in religious Christian homes. They weren’t any different really than the rest of us messed up teen people, although they had a bit more baggage.

One good friend of mine had a sister with cerebral palsy and the foster system managed to keep them together since they were little which doesn’t always happen. I met her when I was 17, she was 18, but still living with her foster parents (evangelicals), transitioning to a life on her own. They had been there short of a year.

This girl was crazy wild. Kinda like the preacher’s daughter syndrome. I got into a lot of trouble with her… and a lot of fun! At any rate, I went to a religious retreat with her once. No one tried to convert me, and we had a good time.