Home is a place where you find comfort and security and feel yourself surrounded by love and affection. A place of belonging where there are no constraints on who you become and evolve into. A place where you do not have to fight for your own rights of being there. Home is also a place where your memories lie. A place where you laugh, love and learn. Dorothy, in the wizard of oz said it best, “There is no place like Home”. Home is where your warm bed is. Home is where you gather with your parents and snuggle in their arms. Home is the total acceptance of your very being.

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For a child leaving the only home they have known, it can be a very scary experience especially true if they have endured any level of trauma. There is some evil too dark to comprehend and some pain that one should never have to endure. For many children in the Foster Care System having to be removed for family dysfunctions in the form of parental neglect, child abuse, physical or sexual abuse, death, incarceration, substance abuse and more is forced to redefine what a family experience feels like. Still many today are still raising children in their weakness, rather than in strength.