What It's Like Living in Foster Care | PART 2 | Origin

[@Seastack11]

Those elderly foster parents are amazing. What a thing to do…..special people for sure. My heart

[@tiawarren5403]

Agreed❤

[@motleymama6587]

They are inspiring me to think about doing it myself. Mine all graduated from high school this year. We’re older but could offer love.

[@shereehewings8483]

My group home carers were in their 60,s at the time when I was aged 4 Aunty C and Uncle John we called these beautiful people. They have probably both passed away 😢 now I am 50 now and I wish I had been given the opportunity to thank them both They loved all the children in care unconditionally ❤

[@MissArie206]

I balled my eyes out when she said that the lady wanted to adopt Lauren and Liam! I hope they get their happy family dreams!

[@hesterplag4730]

Such precious children and parents! How can an 8 yo be to old? That breaks my heart. I got my new parents when I was an older teenager. I am an adult now and in 2 months my ‘new’ parents will walk me down the aisle when I get married… I hope and pray these children will also find their forever homes and familys❤

[@christinehorowitz9305]

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@shaunnaschmidt2970]

My in-laws were foster parents for violent youth offenders for more than 20 years. They were able to connect with the boys and had a very high success rate. It take a very special person to be able to work with the broken children of this world.

[@cindilouwho8681]

Those elderly foster parents are amazing people ❤❤❤

[@legster983]

That little brother will never want to leave his sisters side x

[@melanytodd2929]

Oh, my ❤️. Who WOULDN'T want Lauren and Liam? 😢

[@corinnecoffrini8024]

I agree!

[@jeannerountree952]

I hope they found a family.

[@surgeon1016]

@@jeannerountree952they did the third episode showed them being adopted into what seemed to be an amazing family

[@HeyyyRobyn]

Oh my heart. I’d give anything to welcome kids like this into our family. Such precious little people ❤

[@Ccamero123]

That elderly couple are ANGELS 😇

[@hollyobaby6949]

these care workers are the right people for their jobs...and god bless these foster parents. what a selfless and beautiful act of civil service.

[@aikohikari6587]

Those kids are so cute and so so well behaved. It breaks my heart that they have to go through such a hard time. The foster parents did great.

[@Curligirl70]

I really want to adopt Lauren and Liam but I am in the states. I hope they get the family they deserve ❤

[@zerowastecalifornia]

I would adopt Lauren and Liam in an instant. Bless them both.

[@ianmedium]

Angels walking this earth, that is what all of them are. I am really looking forward to episode 3!

[@Xavierschanclas]

The older foster couple are real life angels. Caring for kids since there’s left home . We need more people like them in the world

[@LightIceLightCreamNoSugar]

the big sis playing with Tommy is adorable.

[@Vitalocaa]

The redhead social worker is an absolute doll! ❤❤

[@Xavierschanclas]

I was not expecting to cry my eyes out during this, but here I am. My heart breaks for all those children who feel unwanted and unloved. I can’t imagine being a child and feeling that way. Extremely tragic . But glad all the kids in this episode got adopted . I hope they have good lives

[@christinpopculture]

I hope these children end up in great families 🙏

[@Ccamero123]

After binge watching Supernanny and watching spoiled entitled kids bite, kick, spit and treat their parents so bad until in desperation they had to call her in to help. Now I’m seeing we’ll behaved loving children who just want a Mom and Dad and a family……It breaks my heart.💔

[@nadinehart8624]

No one is entitled to that though. They’ll get what they’re given at the end of the day

[@sarahreid1156]

It's heart breaking.Someone who as been threw the foster system myself I understand this very well.

[@Ccamero123]

I’m so sorry. Both my parents were orphans. It has such a lasting effect.

[@LMR-Mir]

I would adopt them. They are sweet. Why would anybody say no because of age, disabilities or things like that. I was adopted. I was never in foster care, but I still would adopt.

[@Abcaa]

Focus your energy

[@Abcaa]

On law reforms to

[@Abcaa]

Sterilise women who keep having kids they can't care for

[@nadinehart8624]

No one asked you to adopt them though.

[@LMR-Mir]

@@nadinehart8624 I was trying to say I’d adopt kids at any age with any disability if I could. I know what it’s like to feel unwanted. By mostly everyone. My message was not to put anyone down. It was strictly saying someone cares about them.

[@JJdeWachter]

What a beautifull episode. God bless you all.

[@RoseThorneTV]

I want to adopt so bad. I cry watching this because those poor little children.... but they are so picky, and currently in the USA you can't afford to adopt... I'll never have children but I tried fostering... it was to hard to let them go... I couldn't do it.

[@marissabuoncora1608]

Why couldn’t you adopt the kids you fostered? They didn’t let you?

[@RoseThorneTV]

@@marissabuoncora1608 So the mother still had rights to the kids, but she went against the court orders when she found out through the oldest ones friends that we allowed her to go to a skating rink on Fridays. Well the friend wanted her to spend the night and after talking with their parents and meeting them I agreed. They where going to pick them up from the skating rink. Something came up and they where not able to pick up the girls and instead of calling me the oldest ones friend called the oldest ones bio mom and she came to get them and take them home. After the sleep over oldest one came home crying and telling me what happened and explaining that she wanted her to tell the case worker that we where not caring for them. (Not feeding them, taking them to school, letting them bath etc.) She was freaking out because her mother has gotten them taken from people in the past in similar ways and she didn't want to go. So we went to the casework and explained what happened. Caseworker called us back the next day. (We where with the oldest one in the car taking her to the heart doctor and my phone connects to speaker) The caseworker stated that "I believe the mother over the kids and I believe they are making it all up to get away from her." Oldest one was in tears, super upset. (She was like 15 old enough to have a right to know what was going on in her own case with her mother) Middle of the night she went for a walk to clear her head at the walking park down the road, and I just happened to check on them and she was gone. We searched for hours before finally calling the cops, unfortunately just as the cops arrived and I called the case worker, she came home... but it was already to late. Case worker took them a week later because of her "running away" despite the fact the police didn't put it down as a run away.

[@Abcaa]

You need to put you energy into discouraging these sick and selfish women from having babies. Law reform need to happen in all western countries stating that women who continually have children when they cannot handle them get forcefully sterilised. It's best for the kids AND society.

[@k2h2kqeb]

Adoption is an extremely emotional/psychological process and requires a lot of finances. It's not an easy option for many families.

[@KaseyWithers]

​@@marissabuoncora1608the ultimate goal of fostering (in the US at least) is reunification either with the parents or with another family member. If the caretakers show enough progress and change, or they find a willing family member to take them, foster kids won't be eligible for adoption. It really depends on the child, their family, and the situation overall.

[@HaylieColonD]

When Tommy opened his book and said "I see mommies!" it made me cry

[@KatTheReader]

I would totally love these kiddos, they are so sweet 🥹❤️

[@AgentRains]

Amazing series. Amazing foster carers

[@Court-rw9wi]

With over 100,000 kids put into the care of social workers in the UK, adoptees have a huge selection and can pick and choose. Its sad, but i hope they get the love they deserve in the end.

[@BlazingSadles]

I wush i were younger! I would take any of the three . Tommy Lauren and Liam. But my goodness Tommy has my ♥️

[@ashleymarie6585]

These videos always make me go hug my kids extra tight. I can’t even fathom a world where I didn’t do everything and anything to keep them safe and happy and healthy. How their biological families lay their heads down at night knowing their own flesh and blood is suffering like this?

[@nzlittlebee]

It's not always as straight forward as that. Mental health, abuse, trauma, lack of support, intelligence, financial reasons, addiction... Way too many reasons why a person may not be able to look after their children. Not having them would be the best option in some cases, but you can't take it back... We cannot judge the bio parents having not walked in their shoes.

[@natalieknight1418]

As someone who was adopted you never know the situation so don't judge. My mom was young, already had my brother, my sperm donor had already left when she was 4 months pregnant with me, she couldn't find a job because it was a high risk pregnancy, so she gave the the life she knew she couldn't give me. Did it mean growing up away from all my siblings...yes...but now I understand why did what she did and she and I are as close as any mother and daughter would be. She's amazing. Don't judge a situation you don't know the full story behind.

[@GaffGiraffe]

They need to stop allowing babies to be adopted. They need stable care for up bringing, elder kids need the homes and families. Stop farming out babies only. And open up the adoption requirements. No one makes 100k a year where i live, and thats the minimum requirement of income to even be considered as a foster parent where i am, cant have any divorces, or contact with social workers before. No depression history. That's really unrealistic. It's like they want these kisin care....cause the state pays the carehomes. 3k a kid per month. Plus foodstamps andheathcare coverage.

[@jokehokke283]

Foetale Alcohol Symdrome can cose a lot diffuculties medically, in behavior and mental retardation. It can be a callenge. These children need very loving, understanding and caring parents.

[@sammason136]

If I was a foster mum and if they where in Australia I would adopt them both if I could

[@Chris..23]

This is nothing like the American system.

[@samusugiru]

What’s the American system like?

[@serenabaccari51]

Or the italian one

[@gargwinvinesnake6961]

The Canadian system is a nightmare too. Most adoptions have to be open adoptions. That means you take on all the legal responsibilities of a guardian but have to agree to keep the family the child came from in the loop with updates and visits. You have to involve the people who were deemed unfit to care for the child in that child's life and often re-traumatize them by seeing the people who neglected and abused them. You have to make them visit grandparents determined unfit or unwilling to take them in and go on about how the system is wrong and their abusers were actually good people before the drugs. As an adoptive family you're considered unfit if you've had any physical or mental health issues. Financially you have to be independently wealthy. My friends went through two rounds of in vetro fertilization with surrogates and it cost less than adopting through the government.

[@breakfastattiffanys741]

In Australia it can takes years and years and years to be approved. My Aunty adopted a baby and it took 6 years and a lot of money.

[@rachelkillcare5203]

If long term foster care will have them until they are 18 what’s the difference between this and adopters?

[@gargwinvinesnake6961]

It's so incredibly hard to adopt a child where I am at. Unless you're independently wealthy and have never had any physical or mental health problems the answer is no. It was cost less and involved less hoops for my friends to get two rounds of in vetro fertilzation with surrogates. Most adoptions here open adoptions. You're the child's legal guardian and are legally required to cover all expenses. HOWEVER thei previous family often still has the right to visit them. So once a month or so you have to take your child to visit with the family that wasn't able to support and keep the child. Sure parents may still be drug addicts, but they have the right to see the child they lost to the government. You have to sign on to allow that or you can't adopt.

[@rintintin7292]

I would adopt them ❤❤

[@Angelica-uo7bw]

Maybe if the system wouldn't make it so impossible to adopt in general and pretty much impossible to adopt when they're babies.

[@kassiemicallef5102]

I need a big house so I can take them all 😢

[@sylvia0851]

Im so shocked by all the reasons adoptive parents give to not choice a child. A child having an illness, how can you not love or want a child with a health issue? Shouldnt that make you want a child even more? If I was looking to adopt a child it would be hell to choice between all those children, because I would want to take care of all those kids. A health issue would make me want the child more, not less. Because I know that i can give the child a warm home.

[@colleenobrien8212]

Choose not choice.

[@shereehewings8483]

I was in a orphanage and was placed into group homes and 24 foster placements from age 3 until i was adopted at 6 years old . I had very sexialised behaviours and no foster parents could cope with my behaviours. My birth mother tried to get me back when i was 4 The chiid welfare told her that i had already been adopted out when i hadn't been. They told her that to protect me, i wish that my birth mother gave me up from Birth. That way i would not of been to hell and back Woild not of been sexually abused as a toddler, and rejected by her and other foster parents. Im grateful for my adoptive parents, they had to cope with so much from me and they never gave up on me. I love 💕 them both so very much ❤❤❤ Unfortunately so much damage had already been done 😢 Damaged children become damaged adults I dont break the law or do i think i am complete stuff up However i do suffer from depression, anxiety and dont think i should be breathing ay times I think 💬 in my opinion babies should be adopted at birth when possible that way that baby 🍼 has a better chance to live a normal and productive life 🧬

[@claire5399]

I was adopted at birth. This was in 1956. I still have abandonment issues. I was born with a inherited genetic condition, no one knew my biological parents medical history. All the groups I’m in for adoptees, all the adults who were adopted have issues. Potential parents need therapy and education before they consider adoption. Too many children who are adopted grow up being told they are special, no we were relinquished. Pre birth memories and pre verbal trauma that new parents need to aknowledge.

[@ameliepoulain1900]

Where is part 1?

[@pearlkelly6337]

its posted, i just watched it

[@adrienneharner1949]

​@pearlkelly6337 I've been scrolling through all of their videos on here, and I can't find it at all

[@pearlkelly6337]

@adrienneharner1949 I csnt even post the link for you either cos youtube delete comments with links

[@brendaluther-acosta5701]

Its called "what happens when parents don't take care of their kids" part 1

[@EmilyPadilla-t9s]

2:19 what a monstrous thing to say, that a sister's age is holding the brother back from being adopted. Shame on that c-word

[@nothanksplease]

I think that little boy needs a father. not 2 mothers who will get mad when he is being a little boy.

[@nooraqueen2716]

the social worker seems to favour Lauren over her brother , she seems to ignore him and only cares about the wellbeing of Lauren not her Liam she said the he is holding Lauren from being adopted when it's the other way around ,

[@surgeon1016]

I think the reason why she seems as though she favours Lauren Which she doesn’t is because Lauren is 7 she’s much more aware as opposed to Liam who was only a baby when he was removed so Liam likely doesn’t understand in fact from this documentary it seems as though Liam had little to no understanding of his birth mother which makes the adoption process a lot easier but with Lauren since she does understand and absorbs more she’s more scared and more aware of the changes in her life which is why the social worker spends more time with her so it’s not so much favouring her as it is working with her and helping her to understand that these changes are a positive thing for her

[@nooraqueen2716]

@@surgeon1016 she said the reason she likes her is because she reminds her of her own daughter also , she said Lauren is being held down from being adopted because of her brother but it’s the other way around

[@surgeon1016]

@@nooraqueen2716 actually she said Liam is being held back because of Lauren also her saying she reminds her of her own child doesn’t mean she favours her I know plenty of people who say that doesn’t mean they favour a kid because of it

[@Vitalocaa]

She's helping Lauren process what's happening to her. Lauren knows and remembers her birth mom, come on she's almost 8 years old. She needs that extra attention. I commend the social worker.

[@nadinehart8624]

While the elderly couple were nice they were unbearably rude. Stop encouraging that child to call you mum and dad and encourage it to call you by your name. Fucking odd.

[@Poppy-liliy]

5th

[@CassandraMarable]

Eighth ❤❤❤

[@MaggieWhitfield-dt8ct]

First🎉❤

[@lime.aesthetic.7945]

3rd🎉🎉

[@EmmaMygind]

Fourth🎉

[@thatonecat_lover]

Second 🎉🎉

[@timeaaraouzou710]

Children who have already been rejected by or removed from their birth parents so deserve the ideal parenting, which is having a dad and a mum. Any child psychologist would have to admit that that's the best scenario. I'm sure there are many same sex couples who have stable, loving relationships. But children's rights and needs should be paramount.

[@kaykrause4469]

I think that little boy deserves to have a dad. Those two women because of the life style they have chosen are not owed a child.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

No one is owed anything but basic respect. People who are other than cis/het don't choose to be that way any more than any of us choose the color of our eyes. As long as they can provide him love and support in a stable household they'll be good parents for him. He won't be short of male role models.

[@jokehokke283]

Why? He needs love and understanding parents I do think. Ofcourse he needs a male rolmodel. Why do you think they cannot provite this?

[@JJdeWachter]

​@@bethenecampbell6463 your so wrong here, a child needs father and mother.

[@jokehokke283]

@@JJdeWachter I am sorry but that is proven by sciens not to be true.

[@Milaperadotti]

Rude! Who cares as long as there good loving parents. Bigot. It’s 2024 get over it!

[@jovanapleskonjic5726]

Two woman parentjng a boy ?come on That should be iligal

[@calliea3336]

Children of same-sex couples have no significant disadvantages compared to children of different-sex couples (see PubMed article ID 35627459 for example). Even if there were some disadvantage, it would be far less than the disadvantages of being raised by the government with no permanent family or stability.

[@lextaf8271]

Its the best for a little boy to have TWO mothers💪

[@jovanapleskonjic5726]

@@lextaf8271 amazing .....

[@jaclynisveracious]

@@calliea3336a child needs a mother and father. An article or “study” that was done to deny it is propaganda.

[@claire5399]

Illegal ? This is 2024.

[@gailhoffmann9498]

I cried through the whole story. First because I was sad for the children, but then they were happy tears for the new adoptees--no longer fosters. 🥲❤❤