15-year-old tells her parents that she doesn't regard her 6-year-old foster sister as a sibling, despite foster sister's wishes: 'Her birthday wish was that I loved her back'

Fostering a child is a noble cause for a family to undertake, but it is not to be done or taken lightly and without careful consideration. You first need to consider the effects and disruption to your own children's lives.

Even then, there is going to be adjustment for everyone, and you can't force new relationships—of any sort. Of course, it would be best if all parties were agreeable and did their best to pursue the most positive outcomes. Open and honest communication from all parties will help to achieve this. But feelings simply aren't that simple, they have many layers and are as deeply complex as we are ourselves. So, sometimes, there might not even be a reason we can pinpoint the reason we feel as we do.

While a teen is trying to figure out their own individuality and path in life, changing the foundations of their understanding of their life and the world is going to prove to be extremely difficult for them. There's enough changing for them in the now and the near future. Listening to your teens when they're trying to carve out this path of individuality is the most important thing.

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