Do you know what foster care is? Well, it is mostly a short-term home for children who may need a new home for a while for a variety of different reasons. For some children who don’t have a home to return to, foster home is their only hope. Being a foster child may be difficult sometimes. It’s a good thing that there are good people who want to be foster parents.

Family troubles greatly affect the children. When a husband and a wife could not work on their relationship for the benefit of their children, the authorities will enforce judgment that promotes the welfare of children. In most cases, children are sent to foster homes to be given the love and attention they deserve. In her new book titled Coming to Foster Care, author Suzanne E. Bailey shares a heartwarming story aimed at breaking down foster care from the child’s point of view.

Coming to Foster Care tells the story of a boy who finds love in a foster home. When something bad happened in his own home, he was sent to a foster home. His parents have to follow the mandate of the authority to fulfill certain tasks before they can get him back to ensure his safety. In his new home, his foster parents give him everything—a big room, good food, best care, and most of all, great love. They show him what a family is all about and later on, he feels safe and secure with their love.

For the boy, his family and his foster family are very different. But he is sure that they are the same in one thing; they give him so much love. Coming to Foster Care will provide children a glimpse of what a foster home should be like—a safe place that is full of love.

Families most affected by war can be those of soldiers as well of those of innocent civilians.

Jerilyn Marler’s “Lily Hates Goodbyes” is illustrated by Nathan Stoltenberg.