Does anyone know about fostering / adoption? How likely is this to happen?

[Yellowlilly]

A baby is placed with a foster parent. The baby is going to be adopted. The birth mum is only 14 and wants nothing to do with her child.

The birth mum is then taken into care and is placed with the same foster parent as the one fostering her baby.

Would this ever actually happen?

Sorry I missed the bit about it already being a book by Cathy Glass I thought OP was thinking of writing it.

Yes Cathy Glass was a foster carer in RL.

Hmm but she’s only just published it, @BertieBotts

I mean, it could be any time but her children are adults so not sure it was that long ago.

They are good comfort reads but this one seems to have strayed into complete fiction.

I did once see a programme where a 14 year old and her baby were fostered together and that was in the UK. However she wanted to keep her baby.

It's very unlikely to happen if the girl definitely wants to put her baby up for adoption - unless she is unsure.

@DancinAtTheDisco

Can you be sure it wasn't a mother and baby foster placement?

Well yeah, because those are for mothers that want to keep the baby, not ones who don't want anything to do with it!

It is one thing to tweak the truth to protect identities but they are written as true life and this book is fairly reliant on this happening as a plot device.

That plot is laughable to anyone with the slightest understanding of fostering. Reading the synopses for her other books they are all nonsense- fostering is very banal in many ways, the stories are often sadly similar and certainly not dramatic.

Cathy Glass is a pseudonym. Allegedly this person has written 40+ books in 13 years using two pseudonyms- that is a lot of books.

I suspect the publisher has just made the author up and staff writers churn out stories for that brand. Not unusual.