Different Race Foster Families

There will be times when a child needs to get away from the environment they are in and move to a more stable and loving environment. This could be any child who suffered abuse or their parents are addicts or the parents can’t take care of them. You as a foster family have agreed to take in a child to help them escape these situations. 

These children may be white, black, Hispanic, Asian or Indian. But as a foster family you have to make sure that child is going to be well taken care whether the race of the child is different than the foster family. If the child is 7 years old and older, then they may have questions about why they are not with the “ same” type of people they are. You have to be able to explain that they are there with you because you love them and you wanted them there and that they are the same as you. 

Try not to make it about a race, if the child understands that someone other than their own family loves them then they will grow up with a sense of worth and not associate people of different backgrounds as being different. There are too many people in this world who are racist and do attach certain things to a color, but if you can avoid that at an early age then you are doing the child a service. Teach them that they are with you because you love them and care about them as if they were your own.