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Let's Vote

3/4/2015

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

Tonight, I wanted to talk about the direct role that my siblings and I have always had in our foster care journey. I thought that people might be interested to hear about the voting process that we go through before making any important decision.

Since the time when I was an only child, though that was so long ago that it's hard to ever remember having life without siblings, I have always had a say in what happened in our family. My parents asked me what I thought about taking in children before we started doing foster care.

As I mentioned the other day, I had a say in whether or not we continued to do foster care after our first foster children left our home. Well each of my brothers and sisters and I had a say in whether or not we continued to foster after children left our home. We always took a vote to decide if we wanted to take in more children.

We also have taken a vote each time a child was placed for adoption. We would all have a discussion about how we felt and everyone had a say in determining whether or not we would make a child part of our forever family. Of course, all five children who were put up for adoption were adopted by my parents. But the funny part was that for each vote we had, my brother would vote against the family at first. He would always say that he didn't want anymore siblings, or that we shouldn't keep a kid because they were "annoying." Typical boy, right? Thinks everyone else is annoying, but doesn't realize that he's right in there with them! He did promise a judge that he'd be an annoying little brother after all. But every time, he would realize that being annoying is part of being a sibling, and he would realize that he wanted to keep doing foster care or adopt a child as well.

It's been so important for us kids to have a voice in what happens in our family, and though parents will probably always have the last say in matters, I would highly recommend our voting method to other foster families as well.
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Taylor


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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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