foster parent

“It was definitely the best thing that could happen to me,” said Matlock, who was adopted by his foster parents, Mike and Donna Marose.

Chocolatey brown, obscenely fluffy, and towering a head above his own foster parents – plus weighing more than both combined - is Pesto.

“These children are going to suffer the most,” Lewis, a veteran foster parent, said from her 13-year-old foster daughter’s upstairs bedroom.

Grove found that youths routinely experience these tactics, but foster parents and guardians rarely learn about them happening.

At the time she became foster care ombudsman, she was also a certified foster parent and had also trained people to become foster parents.