Family Matters: Carers and Children Tell Their Stories

Foster caring is as challenging as it is rewarding. There is a school of thought that if one is interested in fostering then one can become a foster carer. Considering the many problems that surface on a day-to-day basis in a given fostering environment it takes much more that interest in fostering to make fostering work. Family Matters frankly discusses what fostering entails and clearly demonstrates how Mohammed and Sharon Lahrichi have had a reasonable degree of success in their fostering work. It documents cases that tell how foster children as well as biological children interpret their lived experiences as children of the same household. It is a book that foster carers social workers and all those who involve in care work should read. In fact it will make an interesting read for all members of any given family. Family Matters also advances the idea that fostering is a work of love which should be taken seriously but which also should be celebrated in spite of the range of emotions that foster caring is capable of evoking.