When we lived in WI, my husband and I were foster parents for 2 years, licensed to do “cradle care” for Bethany Christian Services. According to state law, babies needed to be placed in a foster home after birth in order to give birth parents time to make sure they really, truly, absolutely wanted to go through with terminating their parental rights. That meant we were usually the ones who took the newborn home from the hospital. [Read more]