[Berlin_Freeper]

I am trying to understand - if a foster parent took care of me for several years and then was running for PRESIDENT, wouldn’t I want to come forward as an adult and share my experience with her and endorse her?

[dirtboy]

That's entirely up to the individuals, but I am not going to judge Bachmann by a lack of any of those individuals coming forward.

Would YOU want to subject yourself to the inevitable media meat grinder that would follow?

[mountainbunny]

I am trying to understand - if a foster parent took care of me for several years and then was running for PRESIDENT, wouldn’t I want to come forward as an adult and share my experience with her and endorse her?

Not if they don't want people to know that they were foster children. Not if they don't want the world to know that they were abused, molested or abandoned and needed foster care.

There is a lot of stigma attached to those things and no one owes that sort of debt to a foster parent. Besides, no decent foster parent would ask that of a child.

Their debt does not extend to having their names plastered all over the news so that someone running for office can get publicity out of it.

Does that make sense?