Each May (usually right around Mothers Day), we always pause to spend five minutes drawing your attention to foster care (we told you that May plays host to a lot of worthy causes). Being a foster parent is definitely a way to change a lifetime, but if you only have five minutes, you can learn more about what being a foster parent or foster youth is like (there are nearly 500,000 American youth in foster care). Or, visit these resources in order to learn even more: