r/Fosterparents↗
Foster Parenting Community
Ask questions about parenting, licensing, or resources for your kids. Our sub is a place to share your wins, seek support for your challenges, understand processes, and ask other members of the foster care community for advice or support. This sub is for current and prospective foster parents, in any country. Parents/family of youth in care, youth currently or formally in care, CASAs, agency/state workers, GALs, etc. are also welcome to participate.
32k subscribers189 posts / mo in Sep 2026156 authors / mosince 2013
r/Fosterparents has 32k members (+18% over the last 12 months). It gets about 189 posts a month from 156 people. Top topics: Foster Advice, CPS Controversies and FosterDogs.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Foster Advice0.3%
- CPS Controversies0.2%
- FosterDogs0.2%
- Parenting Controversies<0.1%
- Parenting & Education<0.1%
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- Apple
- TikTok
- Care
- Qualtrics
- Walmart
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