Daddy's Boy by Casey Watson

Author:Casey Watson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

There’s nothing normal in what most foster carers do. And that’s understandable. Because there’s little that’s ‘normal’ in many of the situations that mean kids need to be fostered in the first place. Even in the most loving, committed, fully functional families, it’s invariably a sudden crisis – the antithesis of normality – that leads to a child having to be looked after by the state, even if only for the shortest of periods. A parental car accident, perhaps, where there’s no friend or relative to take the child in, or a sudden serious illness that means hospitalisation. Though much more frequently (in Mike’s and my experience, anyway) it was one of the side-effects of a breakdown of some kind or other; be it the breakdown of the family unit, a breakdown in relations between child and step-parent or, as in the case of so many of the kids we fostered, a simple breakdown in any fragile, optimistic, hopeful progress made by parents locked into a world of substance abuse.

So the events that happened next, though certainly a first for me, were in hindsight just another reminder (as if one were even needed) that our fostering always has the potential to take us into very abnormal, and often challenging, situations.

Right at that moment, however, I patted the hump in the bed again, oblivious to what was coming, and simply went down to answer the door.

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