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Who'd have thought it?

Edited 2014-01-26 01:31 (UTC)

(reply from suspended user)

The system is overworked and underfunded, but for the most part it works. I think the foster kid is a bit more in control than what it seems to be in The US? Like if a Foster Child says s/he wants to move out of a foster home they are required by law to get you out of that home, no questions asked, also you are in control of which home you move into (or well they give you the choice, move in or stay at the childrens home to wait for a different family), but as they have a lack of foster parents it isn't really a choice.

We don't use a lot of Orphanages or Youth Homes, except in extreme cases or when absolutely needed. In the 6 months I spent in a Children's Home, I lived with another girl, a girl that came one weekend a month and that was it. Except the flat that was close by with a girl who would live there until she was 18, but that was because she didn't want to live in a Foster Home, so they create a close resemblance of a "real" home for her, instead of the hallway and common areas she lived in a real flat, just had more than two "parents".

We have two types of Foster Parents the "regular" ones that takes care of children without any kind of special needs, they also work for the city.

Then we have the "special" foster parents who can take care of children with extra needs (for the most part teenagers), one of the foster parents also have to stay at home and are thus hired by the County and paid to stay home. There are overlaps and like I was in a "special" Foster Home, but that was because my foster sister required it and they wanted her to have a positive influence, so they got me.

Foster parents are not well paid, they get paid to not have any expenses with the foster kid, but they don't earn a lot. It is also quite common that one of the foster parents get "bought from their jobs" for a while either full time or half time, to stay at home in the beginning or at times when needed, then the city/county pays them the salary they would have gotten by going to their "real" jobs.

Oh and Single people and same sex couples are encouraged to become foster parents. The proses to become a foster parent is pretty simple, you take a course over some months, get visited some times by a case worker and then you just wait for a kid.

I hope that answered it? IF not just ask more specific questions!

I had a caseworker, well I have had more than one caseworker, but that has been because they moved my entire case from one city to another when I was 8, up until then I had two caseworkers that switched on working with me. After I had the same caseworker until I turned 16 or so, but she got a promotion (she is now running the foster care system in my old county), and then I was assigned a new one.

I don't have a caseworker anymore as I got too old, we can if we want to be in the system until we are 23 (from 18 - 23 you sign contracts every year to accept that you are okay with them being involved in your life). I was in it until I turned 20.

~~wow that got long, sorry~~

You may have got asked this a lot in the past already, but since Frozen is supposed to be based on Norwegian culture, is it popular over there because of that? How is the portrayal of Norwegian culture viewed, is it reasonably accurate or are there mistakes all over?

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