#foster dads

Hannibal: I have my secrets Will,

Will: Gazing into those maroon eyes, knowing, seeing, becoming

Hannibal: …but loving you was never one of them.

Abigail: Choking, dying, writhing on the kitchen floor because her foster dads are becoming official

Proud dad, worried dad, sad dad… 

“Guy Bryant knows the foster care system well. The 61-year-old has cared for more than 50 young men over the last 12 years. He’s also worked as a community coordinator at New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services for 32 years, providing services for young adults who have aged out of the foster care system.

Having fostered more than 50 young adults, Bryant has found that he gains their trust by spending more time with them and ultimately getting to know them better. He plans fishing expeditions a few times a year and sometimes cooks meals with the young men, developing bonds over time.

Bryant is a foster parent through the New York agency Rising Ground. The organization has supported children in need since 1831, first as an orphanage and then as a family foster care program contracted by the city. The agency works with birth parents, connecting them to resources such as mental health offerings, drug rehabilitation, housing and job support, with the ultimate goal of reunifying families.

“The difficult thing about building trust is their past interactions with adults. If I can get you to engage in conversation with me about how you’re feeling and what’s going on, then that right there, my job is done. They constantly need to be reinforced that ‘I am here. I am going to do what I say.’ My kids will tell you whatever I say, I’m going to do for you. I always do it because I don’t want you to look at me like one of those adults who let you down,” Bryant said.

Bryant has zero plans of retiring anytime soon, especially when he sees so many children still in need of a place to call their own.

“The Mr. Bryant approach is I love you regardless,” he said. “You could become a brain surgeon or you could be a bathroom cleaner — it doesn’t matter. Once you come into my home and you’ve been with me and you’ve been here, you’re my kid for life. That’s my approach. You’ll always have a bed to come to, a shower to take — you’ll always be able to come home. This is home.”

Okay so a lot of the Klance parent stuff I’ve seen has been Keith not really wanting kids but Lance wanting all the kids. This is cute but imagine this:

Lance loves his family and wouldn’t trade them for the world, he also loves kids he thinks they’re great, but he doesn’t want any. Lance grew up in a big family and knows the struggles the parents and the kids have to endure to keep the family afloat and never wants to put anyone in that position, especially his family.

Keith isn’t a touchy feely person, he’s also not very social, but he wants to like collect all the orphans. While he’s not much of a kid person, he wants to save kids in the same situation he was before they end up angsty and distanced like him.

Due to this, the two agree to become foster parents, mainly taking in lgbtq+ teens but accepting everyone just the same, and end up adopting a 14 year old gay boy named Lucas and his 12 year old little sister, Lilly, who he’d before lost in the system.

Dean saying “The pain of losing a kid? Don’t do this to us...”