Bradleigh and Ricardo
After chatting about how we would be able to start our family, we went along to a fostering information event. We spoke to a lot of wonderful foster carers there, something just felt right, and we signed up on the day to find out more about fostering and being assessed as foster carers.
Ricardo and I are 27 and 30 years old and are one of the youngest couples that foster with Essex County Council, and we want to stress that age isn’t a barrier when fostering. If you are ready for fostering, you have a spare room, you have love and patience and time to give a young person, then fostering could work for you.
Fostering has changed our lives to the degree where we can’t see our lives without it. It’s just so natural, like waking up in the morning, I don’t know where we would be without fostering and without these children, we love it so much.
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“Fostering is so natural, like waking up in the morning and breathing. We don’t know where we would be without fostering and without these children.”