Where Do I Fit into This Puzzle?

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Natalie can tell that her two foster daughters suffer emotionally after every visit with their biological family, but is it her place to do something about it? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111., welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi Dr Laura, how are you?
0:16.0	Good, what can I help you with?
0:18.0	Well, okay, so my husband and I have permanent guardianship of two girls that are almost 10 years old.
0:27.0	And where did you get them from?
0:30.0	Slow down because you, I'm going to have a lot of questions I can see. So say something and then just slow down.
0:37.0	Okay, so where do you get those two kids?
0:40.0	My husband, I used to be an open foster home and through our network of foster in the
0:49.2	foster and adoptive communities an attorney reached out to us and said, I have these two girls that can't
0:56.8	stay where they are. We don't want to put them in foster care. Would you be
1:00.8	interested in in taking care of them or meeting them? We met them. We met
1:06.6	their guardian at the time, which was a family member of theirs and got to know them and then made the decision,
1:16.6	okay, yes, we can take them because there was no one else in their family that could or would take them and we did not
1:26.8	want to do it to the foster care. How old were they at the time? Five, when we met them and six when they came to permanently live with us.
1:37.0	God, and how old, please tell me again how old they are now?
1:42.0	Almost 10.
1:44.0	Okay, thank you.
1:45.0	Okay, so we have the two guardians.
1:47.0	What else do it?
1:48.0	Guardians of the Galaxy?
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