I'm a daughter of parents that are foster parents.  I read the forum and I am against what the state is trying to do with this category.  My mom has always loved other people children all her life.   She has tried and open her door to alot of children as we were growing up.  She never held a plate against a child that visited or hung around us.  She loved us and other just the same.  So now that I am an adult, it dont surprise me that my mom is now a foster parent.  She has sacrifised alot her years and time to help other children all her life.  And as far as I'm concerned the state just started actually paying these parents the proper money for the things they have to do to keep an abused or a confused or a misled  or mistreated child happy. THERE IS NO PRICE YOU COULD PAY A PERSON THAT GIVES THEIR HEART TO SOMEONE WITH NO CONDITIONS ATTACHED!!!!!!!!!! So tell me do you think that this will pat them on the back for a job well done? or will it stab them in the back for a job someone else should have done?  you tell me.  Because if this world had more people that dont mind giving up their time, health (blood pressure, tension headaches), their way of living....... to help another human being like FOSTER PARENTS DO.........we would have less killings, rapings, robberies,  and abuse in this messed up world.  FOR ONCE...... LET THE PEOPLE KNOW IT'S A GOOD THING TO STAND BEHIND YOUR NEIGHBORS WITH SUPPORT!  LET PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ABUSED KNOW THAT THEIR ARE SOME DECENT PEOPLE LEFT, AND THAT THE DECENT PEOPLE DESERVE EVERY DIME AND EXTENDED TIME FOR THE VALUE OF THEIR HEARTS!!!!!!!!!!!  DONT GIVE UP HOPE FOSTER PARENTS AND MY MOM, GOD GOT THIS!!!!!!