Foster Parent Blog — Guardianship - A Different Approach to Foster Care and Adoption

By @sometimes_mom Last month, my husband and I were granted legal guardianship of a minor which means, we are no longer foster parents. For the time being, anyway.  Guardianship is not something I’ve talked much about because quite honestly, it wasn’t on my radar until recently. Most questions I receive are about how foster care differs from adoption but now I find myself trying to explain how guardianship fits in to the equation, so it seemed like a relevant topic to share this month.  When a child is placed in foster care, the goal for that child is to be reunified...