Reasons NOT to do foster care

I keep hearing these from people who know I do foster care:

1. We're a really busy family right now.  Maybe later...  Later, after these kids age out of the system and produce more kids into the system.
2. I don't think I could ever give them up again!  So let's deny them that love now in order to protect ourselves from the pain.
3. Don't they come with a lot of problems?  Yes.  Some do.  Some don't.
4. I don't think we can afford another child.  They mostly are self-supporting, for one thing.  For another, what is a child's soul worth?
5. Our family is complete now.  We don't need another one.  But a child may need you.
6. We don't have a big enough house or car for another child.  This is tricky.  A car can only hold so many car seats.  But children can share rooms.
7. I have to consider my own children.  I agree; protect your own children.  But taking in children carefully might build your children's compassion and character.
8. I knew someone who took in foster kids when I was a kid.  She did it just for the money.  The system is corrupt.  The "system" stinks.  Wouldn't it be great to have a bunch of foster kids, foster parents, and low-level workers revamp the whole thing!  But the children inside this system can't wait for a perfect system.
9. I don't think I could do foster care.  Not everyone can.  But could you be a CASA?  Or a grandparent/aunt/uncle to a foster kid?  Or provide dufflebags for a foster kid so he doesn't have to carry his stuff around in trash bags?  Or teach money management to foster kids who are about to age out?  Or pray for the case workers who are overloaded with cases?
10. Bless you for taking in those poor kids!  Hmm... thanks?  I like taking in kids.  It must be my ADHD.  I don't think of mine as being "poor kids" -- unless I'm trying to get something more for them from the system! :)