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DawnM
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We were told not to which I think is best to protect your family and the child's privacy. It's just so hard because we love these little ones and want to share their special moments with friends and family. I would send e-mail updates (with photos) to a few close family and friends and our little ones were in our Christmas photo/card. Facebook is a public entity so we need to be careful about what we post.

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I do........BUT my current foster child is a 16 year old girl who is not at risk from bio family, etc. but this is more of her doing. She has a facebook page of her own and posts lots of pictures and has asked me to post some on mine.....like of her making her first loaf of bread in the bread machine, etc.

 

I would not with younger kids, kids at risk from bio family, etc.

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We don't use Facebook so that isn't a problem. We do have a different online photo and video sharing account but it is accessible only to people we allow access to (relatives and close friends). It is not publicly searchable or viewable. We have included pictures of both of our current foster children in this but only after approval from their caseworkers. We mainly set this account up for family that isn't close by so they can see the kids at least in pictures and videos in between visits. We are in the process of adopting one of these girls and are approaching the process with the other so in some ways they are our daughters and excluding them feels wrong and hurtful. If it wasn't ok with their caseworkers we probably would have suspended sharing photos and videos of any of the girls in this fashion for awhile.

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We were told posting pictures was fine as long as we didn't identify the children as foster child. Since all of our foster child have been under two (most were newborn/infants) when placed that wasn't a big deal. Besides those close to our family IRL already knew which ones we fostered. :)

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