Foster care and family fostering for couples and singles
During 2022, MetaCometa took in about 35 children at its nationwide network of families; as of 10/31/2022, the total number of children taken in at the Metacometa family network was more than 70 children.
Family foster care is a valuable tool for helping and welcoming into one’s home a child whose family of origin is temporarily experiencing a difficult time. It is therefore a tool aimed at protecting the child’s right to a family: to be in an environment that is safe but also as close to a family unit as possible, which is helpful in developing relationships that will serve him or her to grow up healthier.
Foster care has a set duration and can end either in a return to the family of origin or in the declaration of adoptive status, should the court so determine.
The minors taken in have an average age of 4 years old, they are abandoned minors who have been abused, living in conditions of extreme material and educational poverty, some come from troubled family backgrounds for whom the court has deemed it appropriate to temporarily remove the minor to ensure their protection and guardianship. Some of them are unaccompanied foreign minors who arrived alone in our country in search of a better future or to escape war and violence.
Children arriving in our families need care and belonging, to live a context in which the relationship with his family of origin and foster family, can allow for continuity of affection and of his cultural background. The “story” each person carries is of inescapable importance, and it is only possible to appreciate, love and value it in light of alternative healthy relationships such as those you propose in another family. Foster children learn to love and feel loved, feel cared for and welcomed, and recognize that they belong to someone. This inevitably generates a fresh look at life, to love oneself, to embrace one’s family of origin, and to look forward to the future with optimism.
Membership is also in MetaCometa, which has the task of finding a “family for every child,” an association that believes in the value of companionship between families that can go as far as concrete help in daily choices, even the most difficult ones.
MetaCometa is not only a company of networked families and individuals, a tool for meeting, supporting and comparing those who experience foster care or are approaching this perspective and want to better understand its meaning, but it becomes extended family for the children who become part of the network.
