Establishing a positive, caring classroom environment which supports the needs of the
foster child is imperative to academic success.
One
foster child described in the report was prescribed 11 medications in one month, including two antidepressants and two stimulants to treat ADHD, at a cost of $1,088 to the state's Medicaid program.
Otherwise, the
foster child cannot be claimed as a dependent.
Children who foster often have to compete with a
foster child for their parents' attention.
A third
foster child in Crozier's care - a five-year-old girl - said Crozier assaulted her in 2002.
For example, if the foster parents do a very good job, the
foster child may be a candidate for adoption and may risk losing progress in a family less prepared than the foster family.
This partnership can go a long way toward helping a
foster child cope with unsettled family and school situations.
Well, our second
foster child, who, by the time you read this, will have been legally adopted by us on February 14--his third birthday.
Every teenager has to live by rules, and [a]
foster child shouldn't be any different.
In some cases, the IRS might, on one part of a tax return, view a child of a nonlegal parent as a
foster child or dependent, but might not on another.
