My wife and I Foster. We foster kids. I feel it necessary to make the distinction between kids and animals because it seems that in society today the latter would be assumed more so than the former. We don’t broadcast that we foster, outside of this post I suppose. No, the topic is typically covered naturally. At parties and soiree’s the topic of children comes up shortly after the stranger asks what you do for work. Having to address the topic of children we say we have a foster son. We’ll get two statements and one question after we drop that fact. Statement 1: We’re told how brave we are. We work with kids, not lions. Statement 2: The stranger recuses themselves saying, “I could never do what you do, it would just be so hard to give them back.”—as if the children are adoption dogs, they have names and their not Barksly, Gimble, or Snickers. Question: Do you watch, “This Is Us?” This question is posed as if all parents who arrive at adoption or foster parenting must have come to it honestly through the great human story of the Pearsons. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great show and...