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Jayne Amelia speaks with foster parent, Mary Rathbone. Mary, her husband Alan and their daughter Chloe started their foster care journey in 2017. Their very first placement was a sibling group of four, aged 6, 4, 3 and 1.  Mary admits that after a month she nearly had a nervous breakdown with the adjustments in lifestyle and mindset fostering requires. Having worked at top hotels in NYC and Chicago before spending ten years in technology in Seattle and seven years working overseas, she believes she could do all her previous jobs blindfolded easier than it has been to take on one, much less four, foster siblings. 

In the past five years Mary and Alan have been foster parents to ten different children, the sibling group of four being back with them now for the second time. Mary sees a deep need for changes to the foster care system to prevent good foster parents and case managers from throwing in the towel and, more importantly, sweeping changes in the biological family unit to stop kids from entering care in the first place.

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