Up here in Canada, it's even more stringent and lucrative at the same time.

I had to pass a background check, complete multiple interviews with social workers about why we wanted to foster/adopt and attend 80 hours of training. (8 Saturdays for training.) The training was easy and brutal at the same time. They brought in some foster kids to tell us some stories and answer some questions. Those were not some fun stories to hear. At all.

We were getting paid about $23.00 dollars a day to foster a little boy, but we've moved into the adoption phase now so we don't get paid any more. Kind of a shame as formula and diapers are expensive!

At any rate, it's extremely satisfying to see the little monster running around chasing the cats and seeing which of his new toys makes the biggest crash when he smashes it into our television.

Fenris