From your link:
That represents an enormous loss of income for the Finicums. According to a 2010 tax filing, Catholic Charities paid the family $115,343 to foster children in 2009. That year, foster parents were compensated between $22.31 and $37.49 per child, per day, meaning if the Finicums were paid at the maximum rate, they cared for, on average, eight children per day in 2009.
“That was my main source of income,” Finicum said.
Keep in mind that a well-known problem in foster circles is that a significant number of the people who foster large numbers (“more than 50” in this case, and as this article points out, an average of 8 at a time, on a ranch…these boys were not playing X-Box after school) do so for the money, for the labor, and are disproportionately more likely to be abusive.
Do not think the fact that they were foster parents automatically means they had a “good side”.
