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What is the greatest
joy of Adoption and Foster Care?
Responses from the Foster Care/Adoption Recruitment Survey
1. A child's happiness
2. Adoption
3. Being able to help a child have a happier more secure
childhood and a greater chance at being able to adjust
to living a healthy, happy life as an adult
4. Being able to show give the children a loving family
home
5. Changing a child's life with love, patience and
stability
6. Children
7. Dealing with the kids.
8. Definitely making a lasting difference in a child's
life and showing your own natural children how you can
be loving in so many ways including sharing yourself
with another child or family
9. Give children a good home
10. Giving a child a chance to see what unconditional
love is and being able to help them grow into a loving,
caring, responsible adult.
11. Giving a child a family that has love and wants the
best for every child
12. Having a child love you and trust you.
13. Having that child come back with their children and
call you mom.
14. Help a child out
15. HELPING A CHILD
16. Helping a child
17. Helping a child feel loved, needed, wanted and
better about themselves.
18. Helping a youngster find their way and to give love
and a home with positive influences
19. Helping children
20. Helping children looking into their eyes and knowing
and feeling that you and your family have made a
difference. That you may have altered a path of
destruction toward a path of opportunity and hope
21. Helping children who desperately need it, and adding
more children to our family
22. Helping kids
23. Helping others
24. Helping out kids who need families.
25. Instilling confidence and trust in a child
26. Knowing that the children are safe and away from
harm
27. Knowing that you are making a difference in that
child's life.
28. Knowing that you are providing a healthy loving
environment for a child
29. Knowing that you can help and give joy and love to a
child (children) who needs it.
30. Knowing that you had a hand in making a child's life
a little easier and maybe a little better.
31. Knowing that you had apart in giving a child a
chance at having a great life and being a great
influence so that when they grew up and think back at
what a foster parent did for them, and they in return
become a great parent or foster parent then it becomes
my legacy because I was there when I was needed.
32. Knowing that you have made a difference in these
children's life even for a little while.
33. Knowing that you have nourished a child to become
the best person they can be and to help them overcome
obstacles that they have been faced in their short
lives.
34. Knowing that you have shown these children that the
whole world is not a bad and scary place. Happiness and
joy can and should be a part of their daily lives.
35. Knowing that you've helped someone and they will
hopefully be a better person because of it!
36. Knowing you helped that child in a time of great
need
37. Knowing you're making a difference
38. Looking into the eyes of a child and seeing joy
instead of fear.
39. Love of children
40. Loving someone and making a difference in that
person's life-Giving that child joy even if it is just
for a short time.
41. Loving the children
42. Making a real difference in the life of another
human being. Seeing them succeed and achieve things they
(or you) never thought possible.
43. Reciprocated love.
44. Seeing a child be a child and enjoying it.
45. Seeing a child come out of their shell and grow
right
46. Seeing a child feel free to be happy, sad, mad or
experience whatever emotions they need to without fear
of rejection, humiliation or risk of being moved from
your home. This only comes with them feeling stable
where they are with you.
47. Seeing a child happy, safe, and adjusted
48. Seeing children relax and become part of a real
family.
49. Seeing the children develop.
50. Seeing the children grow in all ways.
51. Seeing the children you have fostered go to a
suitable and loving adoptive home.
52. Sharing your abundance and love with children
53. Showing children unconditional love.
54. Showing love to a child that never had it before.
55. Showing the kids love and helping them learn to love
56. Smiles!
57. That you may get to adoptee that child if you want
to in the future
58. The child will be loved
59. The children are precious and it's just a pleasure
to help.
60. The children can have hope
61. The children you can help.
62. The children, their smiles, their love, seeing them
63. The everyday small things that the children would
never experience if they weren't with me
64. The kids are happy and stable and the kids can be
happy.
65. The kids!!! And - when I see them master a new skill
I weep with pride and joy
66. The kids.
67. The knowledge that you had a part in the life of a
child and maybe made a difference to that child.
68. The love you can give and receive! It is a two way
street.
69. The ones you keep forever!
70. The satisfaction of helping and making a difference
in child's life
71. There is no greater joy than unconditional love that
is given to you by children.
72. There is no word to describe the way your heart
feels when these children look into your eyes and tell
you thank you for being there for them.
73. Times you were able to help a child smile.
74. To be able to get the family together again
75. To give a child a chance at living in a loving home.
With someone who is willing to work with them and help
them through whatever problems they are having or just
to hear I love you or to give them a hug to show them
that you love them.
76. To nurture a child and help them grow, even after a
tough start - let them experience joy and become
productive adults
77. To see a smiling face when that child looks at you.
78. Touching a child's heart.
79. Touching the life of a child, believing in them and
showing them life is a good thing
80. Ultimately helping a child become a responsible
adult
81. Watching the children grow emotional and physically.
Seeing them form bonds with others.
82. Watching them grow and succeed
83. When the child tells you they love you too and they
tell you, you can adopt them.
84. When you do make a difference
85. Where do I start... the day-to-day exchange of love.
86.
Being able to love, support that individual, give them
the love and care they deserve. |
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