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requirements. Parents must be healthy and the house clean but with an “emphasis on homemaking rather than housekeeping.” A foster family needs only to have money sufficient to cover its needs since foster parents can't support themselves and their natural children with what they're paid for foster care support.

“They don’t have to be rich. They just have to care," said Miss Mustoe.

Rates paid by Virginia are relatively low for a purpose. “The state is very reluctant to raise its rates because they don’t want people lured to foster care as a way of making money." Mrs. Buntin explained.

In addition to a monthly support check, foster children receive Medicaid

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