Do you know any children in Kinship Fostering for no reason?

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Or did you growing up? I think children being raised by grandparents or aunts is on the increase and wonder what your private thoughts are of those family set ups.

I grew up in kinship fostering despite having a completely normal mother who went on to raise other children in a traditional way a few years later. By completely normal I mean no drugs, or drink problem, or chaotic lifestyle. She was a young adult when she had me but an adult all the same.

As I grow older myself I'm only now realising how odd this must have looked to other people outside my family but I think as a child you just accept your own circumstances as your norm But it's pretty weird in hindsight?

Would you think my situation was strange?

Most people I knew that where raised by family , mainly grandparents , were raised by them because their mother had them young and by the time their mother was secure enough to move out either the child wouldn't move or the grandparents wouldn't let them go.

I've known a couple. Someone who was brought up by her grandparents.

A neighbour of mine was looking after a baby for a few weeks because the baby's mother had post natal depression, those weeks ended up being about 16-17 years.

This was an informal arrangement.

Someone I was at school with I was told her aunty was actually her mother but she didn't know. I don't know the truth but I was told when I was about 11.

Who tells an 11 year old their school friend doesn't know who her mother is?