As Arizona continues to experience a shortage of foster parents, the story of one couple is being touted as a success story.
From being discouraged at one point from fostering, to now being the foster parents of many kids, one Arizona couple is lauded as a success story, as the state experiences a shortage of foster parents. FOX 10's Marissa Sarbak reports.Arizona has a shortage of licensed foster care parents. There are 14,000 children in the state's foster care system, and only 3,000 licensed families to support them.
Banica and Liz Olmeda have fostered over a dozen children, and they are advocating for other families doing the same. "In regards to same-sex couples, on how we would not be able to do it at all or how it would be extremely hard for us to foster or then even adopt, and if anyone was willing to take us under their agency, then they would only acknowledge one of us. They wouldn't acknowledge both of us as their parents," Banica recounted."I felt defeated," Banica said. "I wanted to walk out.
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