Comments on: Emotional Wound: Growing Up In Foster Care https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-721397 Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:09:10 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-721397 In reply to vshaw3554.

Hi there! If you’re looking for resources on foster homes, this Emotional Wound Thesaurus entry is a good place to start. You can find it in full at our subscription site, One Stop for Writers. We also have a Setting Thesaurus entry on a Group Foster Home that you might find useful.

]]> By: vshaw3554 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-721389 Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:28:52 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-721389 I think writing Foster Home story but if there any idea you could help please?

]]> By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-667580 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:15:01 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-667580 In reply to Valen.

Thanks so much for your insight, Valen. As with any research, first-hand experience is the most reliable, so I appreciate you sharing this to round out our incomplete narrative.

]]> By: Valen https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-667567 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:03:30 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-667567 I was a foster child and this actually was almost completely on-point. There were a couple of traits I would’ve added such as:
•maturity at early ages/ acting older than the character’s age
•extremely protective of those they love
•clingy sometimes
•described as the ‘therapist’ of friend groups
stays alone
•can develop mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, ect.
•calm/manneristic
•very meticulous of word choice and eloquency
•quiet, sometimes described as shy, doesn’t like to meet new people
•great listeners and give amazing advice because they’ve grown up too quick and they’ve adopted responsibilities that young children shouldn’t have to adopt

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-440564 Sun, 01 May 2016 17:46:24 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-440564 In reply to terry gene.

Very glad this one in particular will be helpful to you Terry!

]]> By: terry gene https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-entry-growing-foster-care/#comment-440306 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:22:08 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19964#comment-440306 This is great. Great material to flesh out Cissy in novels 2, 3 and 4.
One of my MC’s lost her mother at age 6 and was taken in by a loving couple who weren’t relatives. No formal process as they never could find out who she was. She became rebellious, homicidal, but they always responded with active love and got her through her bad years and into college.

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