A Bay area couple is retiring this fall after serving as resource parents, traditionally known as foster parents, for 30 years.
Paul and Betsy Rose Franklin had already raised three adult children between them. But they had more love to give. Betsy wanted them to become foster parents, and Paul agreed.
Since then, the name has changed to resource parents – an umbrella term now used by many state agencies to describe foster care, kinship care, or adoptive parents – but the critical roles they played have not…