Basics
FULL NAME: Faith Agatha Carson
AGE: 32
NATIONALITY: American
ORIENTATION: Heteroromantic Heterosexual
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Kevin Carson
CHILDREN: Agatha Carson (12), and Kristen Carson (8)
OCCUPATION: Social Worker
MEDICAL HEALTH: Pregnant
MENTAL HEALTH: Post Traumatic Stress
STRENGTHS: Kind, Loving, Determined, Maternal, Devoted
WEAKNESSES: Impatient, Talkative, Moody, Anxious, Standoffish
LIKES: Horses, Children, Mexican Food, Reading, Fantasy Movies
DISLIKES: Dishonesty, Regrets, Cruelty, Adultery, Horror Movies
FEARS: Losing her Children, Her Father
AGE: 32
NATIONALITY: American
ORIENTATION: Heteroromantic Heterosexual
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Kevin Carson
CHILDREN: Agatha Carson (12), and Kristen Carson (8)
OCCUPATION: Social Worker
MEDICAL HEALTH: Pregnant
MENTAL HEALTH: Post Traumatic Stress
STRENGTHS: Kind, Loving, Determined, Maternal, Devoted
WEAKNESSES: Impatient, Talkative, Moody, Anxious, Standoffish
LIKES: Horses, Children, Mexican Food, Reading, Fantasy Movies
DISLIKES: Dishonesty, Regrets, Cruelty, Adultery, Horror Movies
FEARS: Losing her Children, Her Father
Appearance
A petite woman with auburn hair, one might describe Faith as "cute." She stands only 5'1" tall with a figure that's curvy in all the right places. Her hands and feet are both small (she wears a size 6 shoe). A narrow waist and full hips give her a feminine appeal. The curves and height combined make Faith a particularly attractive woman to those who enjoy a traditional figure, and Faith is generally considered to be an attractive woman based on her body alone.
Even so, her face is quite pretty as well. With a full head of dark auburn hair (which she highlights with some blonde) and green eyes, something about the hint of Celtic heritage gives Faith a fiery appearance. Her lips are always ready for a smile, enhancing her high cheekbones and the gentle curve of her eyes. Faith is nearly always smiling or laughing, and the smile enhances her facial features and makes her an especially attractive woman.
Faith dresses for comfort, generally wearing blue jeans and flannel shirts. She doesn't fuss about her appearance too much and rarely dresses for business or to be fancy. When fancy dress is required, she prefers long skirts and fitted blouses that show off her curves. It's rare to find her wearing a full dress.
Even so, her face is quite pretty as well. With a full head of dark auburn hair (which she highlights with some blonde) and green eyes, something about the hint of Celtic heritage gives Faith a fiery appearance. Her lips are always ready for a smile, enhancing her high cheekbones and the gentle curve of her eyes. Faith is nearly always smiling or laughing, and the smile enhances her facial features and makes her an especially attractive woman.
Faith dresses for comfort, generally wearing blue jeans and flannel shirts. She doesn't fuss about her appearance too much and rarely dresses for business or to be fancy. When fancy dress is required, she prefers long skirts and fitted blouses that show off her curves. It's rare to find her wearing a full dress.
Personality
Faith is a gentle soul. She's focused on giving children (hers and the children she serves as a social worker) stability and love in their lives so that they can grow into strong, caring individuals. Other people are a priority, and making sure that the children in her life experience comfort is of utmost importance to Faith. Children, in her opinion, do best when they feel comforted and protected, and so her goals relate to ensuring that the children at New Beginnings and Second Chances (and her own children!) are fully encouraged and comforted whenever possible. She is one of the people behind making sure that every bedroom in the foster homes is equipped with comfortable bedding and that each child received a teddy bear for Christmas.
Compassionate and caring, Faith spends her time striving to understand the children she works with. However long it takes her, she will do whatever she can to work out what a child has experienced and to understand his or her response to the experience. In Faith's mind, relating to a child helps them to recover more quickly from whatever has hurt them. More than understanding, compassion helps children to open up to letting her help them.
Unfortunately, Faith's compassion doesn't always extend to her own biological children, and she sometimes struggles to understand them. She struggles to relate to Aggy in particular and she and her older daughter often butt heads on a variety of subjects. Faith can be harsh with her children and in spite of her love for them she sometimes pushes them further than what's healthy for the girls. Their relationship has taken a downward dip in the past few years and Faith is working on restoring her relationship with both girls.
Compassionate and caring, Faith spends her time striving to understand the children she works with. However long it takes her, she will do whatever she can to work out what a child has experienced and to understand his or her response to the experience. In Faith's mind, relating to a child helps them to recover more quickly from whatever has hurt them. More than understanding, compassion helps children to open up to letting her help them.
Unfortunately, Faith's compassion doesn't always extend to her own biological children, and she sometimes struggles to understand them. She struggles to relate to Aggy in particular and she and her older daughter often butt heads on a variety of subjects. Faith can be harsh with her children and in spite of her love for them she sometimes pushes them further than what's healthy for the girls. Their relationship has taken a downward dip in the past few years and Faith is working on restoring her relationship with both girls.
History
Faith learned early in life that not all parents are nice people. She knew that her parents loved her in their own way, but her mother's austere personality didn't lend itself well to a loving home. Roger and Lorraine Arthur had expectations for their only daughter that she would meet or face harsh punishment and criticism. In some ways Roger was a better father to her than her friends' fathers were to them. He didn't drink and he didn't work so much that he was never home. That didn't make up for the things he did do.
Roger could be a violent man, masking his violence as discipline and claiming he did it out of love for Faith. He never laid a hand on his wife, but Faith could expect harsh punishments when she didn't accomplish the goals her parents laid out for her. In addition to keeping a rigid schedule for his daughter, Roger expected her to maintain straight-As in school and to keep up with extracurricular activities, including an involvement in Student Counsel from the time she was eleven years old. Failure resulted in Roger lashing her legs with a switch until she begged for him to stop, and then he would continue until he had "made his point." Lorraine failed to protect her daughter and instead distanced herself from both Roger and Faith. Perhaps it was their Catholic background and the expectation that women follow a man's lead, but Faith grew up understanding that real poverty comes in a number of forms, including parents who treat you as a possession instead of a person.
She succeeded because there was no alternative; Failure resulted in a harsh thrashing and harsher words. Childhood was far from a happy time for Faith, who struggled throughout the first twenty years of her life to make do with the family she'd been given.
Faith ran away with Kevin Carson when she was twenty years old. Still in college, her father kept a firm hand on her, demanding that she succeed in her classes. Even as an adult, he kept her under his thumb, punishing her for every failure. The punishments hurt more than her body, but ripped into her soul as well, and the opportunity to leave home with a rodeo man provided her with the escape that she needed. She escaped, transferred to the University of Wyoming and continued her studies there. Out from under her father's command, she flourished, achieving straight-As without the pressure of having to do so in order to avoid a thrashing.
Her new beau demanded nearly as much of Faith as her father did, but something about the way he touched her when he punished her aroused her. Unlike her father, he made her feel good about herself. An occasional spanking kept the romance alive in their relationship, and she never felt oppressed by Kevin until she became pregnant with her first daughter the same year she moved to Wyoming.
Worried about his daughter's well-being, Kevin became insistent that Faith take better care of her body. He stopped competing for the duration of her pregnancy, doting on her but demanding that she eat well and exercise. Faith adhered well to the dietary restrictions, as she'd always been a health person, but Kevin trapped her in her own home, forcing her to take it easy when she wanted nothing more than to get through the next two years of college. She switched to online classes until the baby was born. Kevin returned to the rodeo circuit shortly after Aggy was baptized, and Faith found herself back at home with her parents.
A baby out of wedlock brought all hell fire down on her shoulders. Her father beat her, demanding that she give her baby up for adoption and get herself back into school. When she refused to give up her baby girl, her father forbid her from seeing Kevin Carson again and her mother demanded that she marry him. Conflicted by the alternate viewpoints Faith fought her desire to flee West again and enrolled at school. Her mother, in spite of her flaws, cared for the baby while Faith completed her classes, finishing with a bachelor's degree in Social Work while working two jobs on the side to support her baby. Life at home was far from ideal, but it provided Faith with the opportunity to finish college without starting small files in her family.
Kevin came back a year after graduation. She'd been doing well on her own caring for Aggy, who was now two years old. It was all she could do to keep her father's discipline away from her baby, however, and she welcomed the opportunity to follow her mother's directive. Faith eloped with Kevin that weekend and returned with him to Montana with nothing but the clothes on her back.
They raised Aggy together while Faith put herself through two more years of school for her master's degree in social work. The couple shared most of the responsibilities for the children, though Kevin was gone more often than he was at home. His winnings supported the family while Faith did most of the caring. She spent as much time at home as she could, studying hard and maintaining her 4.0 grade point average. It would raise her pay grade and allow her to do the good she'd always dreamed of doing in the world.
Aggy was four years old and Faith was pregnant for the second time when she graduated college. The master's degree increased her pay scale, meaning that Faith no longer required Kevin's earnings to support her two daughters. With more time on her hands, the couple began to fight. Faith worked, and she wanted Kevin to spend more time at home with the girls while they were still young enough to remember him. Rodeo had its hooks in her young husband, however, and he was gone more often than he was at home, forcing the children to stay with a daycare while neither parent could be at home.
She needed help. Children needed family, not day care workers. Faith left Kevin in Montana and returned home to North Carolina and her parents.
Oh! How time could make her forget the way her parents treated her and would treat her children! Her father, far from happy to see her, chastised her for running away and once again forbid her from speaking to Kevin Carson. He seized her cell phone and changed the home phone number so that Kevin couldn't call. Kevin would be forced to come to the house if he wanted to see his wife or his children, and if he were to do so, Roger planned to pull a shot gun on him. As far as he was concerned, Kevin had stolen his daughter from him, and Kevin didn't deserve her. Roger treated his daughter as a possession and not as family, and so the separation was completed on his word.
Catholic and married, Faith could neither divorce her husband nor engage in an adulterous relationship with another man.
Life at home was lonely. Her father controlled her every move, and his abusive behavior toward her daughters infuriated Faith. She had no choice. If she attempted to return to her husband, her father would drag her back home, and life would be worse for her and her daughters. Her parents fed the children such lies about their father that over time Kristy began to believe them. Aggy, on the other hand, missed her father and asked about him frequently.
Kevin never attempted to obtain custody, and since Faith didn't pursue him for child support, their separation was seemingly amicable. Every now and again he would come by the house and Roger would chase him off with his shotgun, refusing to allow the girls to see their father. Faith and Aggy were miserable, and Roger doted on Kristy, who believed his lies about her father. Over time, Faith began to fight with her older daughter as Aggy approached puberty. If she couldn't control Aggy, Roger's violent behavior might be taken out on the ten-year-old, and the last thing Faith could handle was knowing that she had failed to protect her own children. She couldn't seek protection from the agency for which she worked for fear of setting her father off, and she feared losing her job if her superiors knew she had an intense situation at home.
Worse, she feared losing her children if her supervisors knew that her children were being abused, even if she wasn't the abuser.
Thank goodness for Becky Thomas.
Faith met Becky in the third year of separation from her husband. Aggy was seven by that point and Kristy had just turned three. They ran into one another -- literally -- at church. Becky's face was smeared with tears and Faith was in a hurry to leave ahead of her parents so that she could take her children for the promised treat of lunch at the diner. Aggy retrieved Becky's purse, and the two women got to talking for so long that the girls were whiney with hunger.
Becky's son had run away from home that year, and as Becky understood it, his girlfriend was pregnant. Kenneth was thirteen years old, and her Catholic sentimentality, combined with her father's strict order around the house, left Becky in quite a bind.
They became fast friends. Supper at the diner replaced the lunch, and Faith went home with Becky that night, holing up at her house while the girls slept together on the couch. The phone calls started the next day. Roger wanted his daughter back. He accused Faith of engaging in a lesbian relationship with her new friend and insisted that if she didn't bring her daughters home, that he would call her colleagues at Child Protective Services and demand that they return the girls home. Faith hesitated, nearly following his orders, but Becky was a fellow social worker employed in a neighboring county, and she promised that whatever Roger threatened, nobody was going to take her children and send them to live with their grandparents instead of with her. Roger was an abusive man, and no case worker in her right mind would send the children to stay with him.
Kristy cried for her grandparents. It was a month before Faith returned home with her children, leaving Becky to grieve the loss of her son. The two women worked in different departments but spend as much time together as they could. They shared common goals and worked together to take care of Faith's children and to find new ways to help children in their communities. Over time, Faith realized what her friend already knew: The system was broken and they weren't going to be able to fix it from the inside the way that they had once believed.
Going home only served to prove that point for Faith. Nothing she did would protect her children from their grandparents. They wooed Kristy while abusing Aggy and Faith struggled to balance the two children as her older daughter approached womanhood. When Aggy's hormones set to work on her personality, she and Faith began to fight more, and the more they fought, the more Roger "disciplined" the two of them. Beatings didn't help make their relationship any better, and both Faith and Aggy grew more estranged from Roger as time went on.
Nine days before Aggy's twelfth birthday, Kevin returned. Becky hated him by then for not rescuing her friend from her abusive parents, and more for not being there for his children when they needed him the most. Roger stood between the children and anyone who would help to protect them, and over time even Becky could no longer do what was needed to keep them safe from his expectations and the beatings.
Kevin nearly couldn't get to his wife, Becky protected her so vehemently. It was only once he made it through the fortress of protection around her that he convinced her and Becky to come with him to Birchwood Isle, where they could reunite and restore their relationship while protecting their children. Faith's parents would never make it onto the island, and island law supported the marriage that her parents had so easily dismissed. With two children between them, annulment had never been an option, and so they would be able to try again to establish the relationship they'd once had. Separated from the rodeo, Kevin had the potential to be the best parent he could be.
They've been working to establish themselves on the island ever since, and Faith works to maintain Becky's foster care project, helping to place children into permanent adoptive families.
Roger could be a violent man, masking his violence as discipline and claiming he did it out of love for Faith. He never laid a hand on his wife, but Faith could expect harsh punishments when she didn't accomplish the goals her parents laid out for her. In addition to keeping a rigid schedule for his daughter, Roger expected her to maintain straight-As in school and to keep up with extracurricular activities, including an involvement in Student Counsel from the time she was eleven years old. Failure resulted in Roger lashing her legs with a switch until she begged for him to stop, and then he would continue until he had "made his point." Lorraine failed to protect her daughter and instead distanced herself from both Roger and Faith. Perhaps it was their Catholic background and the expectation that women follow a man's lead, but Faith grew up understanding that real poverty comes in a number of forms, including parents who treat you as a possession instead of a person.
She succeeded because there was no alternative; Failure resulted in a harsh thrashing and harsher words. Childhood was far from a happy time for Faith, who struggled throughout the first twenty years of her life to make do with the family she'd been given.
Faith ran away with Kevin Carson when she was twenty years old. Still in college, her father kept a firm hand on her, demanding that she succeed in her classes. Even as an adult, he kept her under his thumb, punishing her for every failure. The punishments hurt more than her body, but ripped into her soul as well, and the opportunity to leave home with a rodeo man provided her with the escape that she needed. She escaped, transferred to the University of Wyoming and continued her studies there. Out from under her father's command, she flourished, achieving straight-As without the pressure of having to do so in order to avoid a thrashing.
Her new beau demanded nearly as much of Faith as her father did, but something about the way he touched her when he punished her aroused her. Unlike her father, he made her feel good about herself. An occasional spanking kept the romance alive in their relationship, and she never felt oppressed by Kevin until she became pregnant with her first daughter the same year she moved to Wyoming.
Worried about his daughter's well-being, Kevin became insistent that Faith take better care of her body. He stopped competing for the duration of her pregnancy, doting on her but demanding that she eat well and exercise. Faith adhered well to the dietary restrictions, as she'd always been a health person, but Kevin trapped her in her own home, forcing her to take it easy when she wanted nothing more than to get through the next two years of college. She switched to online classes until the baby was born. Kevin returned to the rodeo circuit shortly after Aggy was baptized, and Faith found herself back at home with her parents.
A baby out of wedlock brought all hell fire down on her shoulders. Her father beat her, demanding that she give her baby up for adoption and get herself back into school. When she refused to give up her baby girl, her father forbid her from seeing Kevin Carson again and her mother demanded that she marry him. Conflicted by the alternate viewpoints Faith fought her desire to flee West again and enrolled at school. Her mother, in spite of her flaws, cared for the baby while Faith completed her classes, finishing with a bachelor's degree in Social Work while working two jobs on the side to support her baby. Life at home was far from ideal, but it provided Faith with the opportunity to finish college without starting small files in her family.
Kevin came back a year after graduation. She'd been doing well on her own caring for Aggy, who was now two years old. It was all she could do to keep her father's discipline away from her baby, however, and she welcomed the opportunity to follow her mother's directive. Faith eloped with Kevin that weekend and returned with him to Montana with nothing but the clothes on her back.
They raised Aggy together while Faith put herself through two more years of school for her master's degree in social work. The couple shared most of the responsibilities for the children, though Kevin was gone more often than he was at home. His winnings supported the family while Faith did most of the caring. She spent as much time at home as she could, studying hard and maintaining her 4.0 grade point average. It would raise her pay grade and allow her to do the good she'd always dreamed of doing in the world.
Aggy was four years old and Faith was pregnant for the second time when she graduated college. The master's degree increased her pay scale, meaning that Faith no longer required Kevin's earnings to support her two daughters. With more time on her hands, the couple began to fight. Faith worked, and she wanted Kevin to spend more time at home with the girls while they were still young enough to remember him. Rodeo had its hooks in her young husband, however, and he was gone more often than he was at home, forcing the children to stay with a daycare while neither parent could be at home.
She needed help. Children needed family, not day care workers. Faith left Kevin in Montana and returned home to North Carolina and her parents.
Oh! How time could make her forget the way her parents treated her and would treat her children! Her father, far from happy to see her, chastised her for running away and once again forbid her from speaking to Kevin Carson. He seized her cell phone and changed the home phone number so that Kevin couldn't call. Kevin would be forced to come to the house if he wanted to see his wife or his children, and if he were to do so, Roger planned to pull a shot gun on him. As far as he was concerned, Kevin had stolen his daughter from him, and Kevin didn't deserve her. Roger treated his daughter as a possession and not as family, and so the separation was completed on his word.
Catholic and married, Faith could neither divorce her husband nor engage in an adulterous relationship with another man.
Life at home was lonely. Her father controlled her every move, and his abusive behavior toward her daughters infuriated Faith. She had no choice. If she attempted to return to her husband, her father would drag her back home, and life would be worse for her and her daughters. Her parents fed the children such lies about their father that over time Kristy began to believe them. Aggy, on the other hand, missed her father and asked about him frequently.
Kevin never attempted to obtain custody, and since Faith didn't pursue him for child support, their separation was seemingly amicable. Every now and again he would come by the house and Roger would chase him off with his shotgun, refusing to allow the girls to see their father. Faith and Aggy were miserable, and Roger doted on Kristy, who believed his lies about her father. Over time, Faith began to fight with her older daughter as Aggy approached puberty. If she couldn't control Aggy, Roger's violent behavior might be taken out on the ten-year-old, and the last thing Faith could handle was knowing that she had failed to protect her own children. She couldn't seek protection from the agency for which she worked for fear of setting her father off, and she feared losing her job if her superiors knew she had an intense situation at home.
Worse, she feared losing her children if her supervisors knew that her children were being abused, even if she wasn't the abuser.
Thank goodness for Becky Thomas.
Faith met Becky in the third year of separation from her husband. Aggy was seven by that point and Kristy had just turned three. They ran into one another -- literally -- at church. Becky's face was smeared with tears and Faith was in a hurry to leave ahead of her parents so that she could take her children for the promised treat of lunch at the diner. Aggy retrieved Becky's purse, and the two women got to talking for so long that the girls were whiney with hunger.
Becky's son had run away from home that year, and as Becky understood it, his girlfriend was pregnant. Kenneth was thirteen years old, and her Catholic sentimentality, combined with her father's strict order around the house, left Becky in quite a bind.
They became fast friends. Supper at the diner replaced the lunch, and Faith went home with Becky that night, holing up at her house while the girls slept together on the couch. The phone calls started the next day. Roger wanted his daughter back. He accused Faith of engaging in a lesbian relationship with her new friend and insisted that if she didn't bring her daughters home, that he would call her colleagues at Child Protective Services and demand that they return the girls home. Faith hesitated, nearly following his orders, but Becky was a fellow social worker employed in a neighboring county, and she promised that whatever Roger threatened, nobody was going to take her children and send them to live with their grandparents instead of with her. Roger was an abusive man, and no case worker in her right mind would send the children to stay with him.
Kristy cried for her grandparents. It was a month before Faith returned home with her children, leaving Becky to grieve the loss of her son. The two women worked in different departments but spend as much time together as they could. They shared common goals and worked together to take care of Faith's children and to find new ways to help children in their communities. Over time, Faith realized what her friend already knew: The system was broken and they weren't going to be able to fix it from the inside the way that they had once believed.
Going home only served to prove that point for Faith. Nothing she did would protect her children from their grandparents. They wooed Kristy while abusing Aggy and Faith struggled to balance the two children as her older daughter approached womanhood. When Aggy's hormones set to work on her personality, she and Faith began to fight more, and the more they fought, the more Roger "disciplined" the two of them. Beatings didn't help make their relationship any better, and both Faith and Aggy grew more estranged from Roger as time went on.
Nine days before Aggy's twelfth birthday, Kevin returned. Becky hated him by then for not rescuing her friend from her abusive parents, and more for not being there for his children when they needed him the most. Roger stood between the children and anyone who would help to protect them, and over time even Becky could no longer do what was needed to keep them safe from his expectations and the beatings.
Kevin nearly couldn't get to his wife, Becky protected her so vehemently. It was only once he made it through the fortress of protection around her that he convinced her and Becky to come with him to Birchwood Isle, where they could reunite and restore their relationship while protecting their children. Faith's parents would never make it onto the island, and island law supported the marriage that her parents had so easily dismissed. With two children between them, annulment had never been an option, and so they would be able to try again to establish the relationship they'd once had. Separated from the rodeo, Kevin had the potential to be the best parent he could be.
They've been working to establish themselves on the island ever since, and Faith works to maintain Becky's foster care project, helping to place children into permanent adoptive families.
Connections
Kevin Carson - The recently-restored relationship between Kevin and Faith is complex. They grow closer little by little, but Kevin is a harsh man who keeps his family under a strict control. Becky has speculated that Faith married her father, and in some ways she may be right. Truth is often complicated, however, and Faith enjoys Kevin's control in her family. He's good to the girls, even if he's a strict father, and she loves that she's dominant in the bedroom and out of it.
Agatha Carson - Since Aggy started puberty, she and Faith have struggled in their relationship. Aggy's already interested in boys, which makes things difficult at home. Kevin hates Aggy's interest in the opposite sex and Faith is constantly stepping between them with the thought that she's protecting Aggy from her father the way she should have protected her from her grandfather. They fight frequently and vehemently and their relationship is rocky, at best.
Kristen Carson - In spite of everything they did to her, Kristy believes in her grandparents, making a previously pristine relationship between mother and daughter troubled, to say the least. Kristy's behavior has gotten out of control and Faith is fearful of attempting to correct her because she believes that if she does, she'll alienate her daughter more. Kevin shares her thoughts and for that reason, Kristy is making life at home especially difficult.
Kelsey McBride - Kelsey is the second child Faith and Kevin chose to sponsor. Their first sponsee left the island shortly after the paperwork was signed, reclaimed by biological family. A sweet child with a sneaky nature and an ability to find mischief where it shouldn't belong, Kelsey has Faith's attention. She's a bright spot in an otherwise struggling family in spite of the minor issues they've faced with her so far, and Faith is most grateful that Kelsey gets along so well with Kristy and Aggy.
Becky Thomas - Her best friend since her early twenties, Becky has been a blessing in Faith's life. She's her defender, the one who keeps her safe when Faith forgets how to do it herself, and the voice of reason when she does or says something stupid that could hurt her. Becky and her boyfriend, Rowan, are Aggy and Kristy's godparents and contribute to ensuring that the girls' needs are met. Becky and Faith spend considerably time together outside of their work environment.
Jailene March - When Jailene's twin sons were younger, Faith was Leo's social worker. During a difficult time in their family's history, Jailene was suspected of being physically abusive and neglectful toward her sons. Against all odds, Faith managed to help Jailene and her husbands keep their family together, and for that reason the two have become cautious friends. Trust is fragile in this relationship, however, and Faith treads carefully with Jailene.
Delia Stavros - Max Masters threatened to take Delia's granddaughter from her family when Delia's husband restricted the child's access to her biological father, and Faith stepped in to help the family to work out a custody arrangement that worked well for both the Stavros family and for the March/Masters family. While they aren't exactly "friends," Delia and Faith get along fairly well when they are together.
Toby Andrews - Toby is one of Faith's most important clients, though they are somewhat estranged since Toby arrived on the island. Faith is responsible for Toby's being on the island in the first place, but trust was lost when Faith was unable to adopt Toby during a particularly difficult time in the girl's life. Nothing's been the same for them since, though Faith remains active in working Toby's case and ensuring that she is comfortable and happy with her sponsor family.
Agatha Carson - Since Aggy started puberty, she and Faith have struggled in their relationship. Aggy's already interested in boys, which makes things difficult at home. Kevin hates Aggy's interest in the opposite sex and Faith is constantly stepping between them with the thought that she's protecting Aggy from her father the way she should have protected her from her grandfather. They fight frequently and vehemently and their relationship is rocky, at best.
Kristen Carson - In spite of everything they did to her, Kristy believes in her grandparents, making a previously pristine relationship between mother and daughter troubled, to say the least. Kristy's behavior has gotten out of control and Faith is fearful of attempting to correct her because she believes that if she does, she'll alienate her daughter more. Kevin shares her thoughts and for that reason, Kristy is making life at home especially difficult.
Kelsey McBride - Kelsey is the second child Faith and Kevin chose to sponsor. Their first sponsee left the island shortly after the paperwork was signed, reclaimed by biological family. A sweet child with a sneaky nature and an ability to find mischief where it shouldn't belong, Kelsey has Faith's attention. She's a bright spot in an otherwise struggling family in spite of the minor issues they've faced with her so far, and Faith is most grateful that Kelsey gets along so well with Kristy and Aggy.
Becky Thomas - Her best friend since her early twenties, Becky has been a blessing in Faith's life. She's her defender, the one who keeps her safe when Faith forgets how to do it herself, and the voice of reason when she does or says something stupid that could hurt her. Becky and her boyfriend, Rowan, are Aggy and Kristy's godparents and contribute to ensuring that the girls' needs are met. Becky and Faith spend considerably time together outside of their work environment.
Jailene March - When Jailene's twin sons were younger, Faith was Leo's social worker. During a difficult time in their family's history, Jailene was suspected of being physically abusive and neglectful toward her sons. Against all odds, Faith managed to help Jailene and her husbands keep their family together, and for that reason the two have become cautious friends. Trust is fragile in this relationship, however, and Faith treads carefully with Jailene.
Delia Stavros - Max Masters threatened to take Delia's granddaughter from her family when Delia's husband restricted the child's access to her biological father, and Faith stepped in to help the family to work out a custody arrangement that worked well for both the Stavros family and for the March/Masters family. While they aren't exactly "friends," Delia and Faith get along fairly well when they are together.
Toby Andrews - Toby is one of Faith's most important clients, though they are somewhat estranged since Toby arrived on the island. Faith is responsible for Toby's being on the island in the first place, but trust was lost when Faith was unable to adopt Toby during a particularly difficult time in the girl's life. Nothing's been the same for them since, though Faith remains active in working Toby's case and ensuring that she is comfortable and happy with her sponsor family.
Discipline
Primary Method of Punishment: Assigning unnecessary or excessive chores designed to wear the child or teenager out while teaching compliance and responsibility.
Secondary Method of Punishment: Spanking or paddling. Switching for rare behaviors.
Other Methods of Punishment: Mouth soaping for swearing or lying (or other infractions involving the mouth).
Primary Triggers: Out of control behavior, Cursing, Power Struggles
Secondary Triggers: Disrespectful behavior toward peers, Disrespect toward family
Other Triggers: Failure to put effort into projects, Disobedience
Preferred Spanking Position: Over-the-Knee
Secondary Spanking Position: Supported Standing
Other Spanking Positions: None
Preferred Spanking Implement: Hairbrush
Secondary Spanking Implement: Palm
Other Spanking Implements: Paddles, Spoons, Switches
Need to Know: Faith will do her best to make sure that a child she is about to punish understands the reason that she will be punished and that she has some sense of control over the situation. While many adults prefer to leave a child feeling helpless and powerless to the situation and under the adult's control, Faith believes that a child learns best when she feels as though she's earned the spanking and understands that it has a purpose in helping her to do better the next time. She will establish joint control of the punishment with the child before proceeding, and then will follow up afterward with a plan in place to help the child or teen avoid a future punishment.
This can make punishments (particularly spankings) a time-consuming process when dealing with Faith. If you prefer a quick fix, she's probably not the right one to handle a punishment thread for you. But if you want to be involved with a thread that will result in a solid bonding experience, then you may get the most out of a thread with Faith.
Secondary Method of Punishment: Spanking or paddling. Switching for rare behaviors.
Other Methods of Punishment: Mouth soaping for swearing or lying (or other infractions involving the mouth).
Primary Triggers: Out of control behavior, Cursing, Power Struggles
Secondary Triggers: Disrespectful behavior toward peers, Disrespect toward family
Other Triggers: Failure to put effort into projects, Disobedience
Preferred Spanking Position: Over-the-Knee
Secondary Spanking Position: Supported Standing
Other Spanking Positions: None
Preferred Spanking Implement: Hairbrush
Secondary Spanking Implement: Palm
Other Spanking Implements: Paddles, Spoons, Switches
Need to Know: Faith will do her best to make sure that a child she is about to punish understands the reason that she will be punished and that she has some sense of control over the situation. While many adults prefer to leave a child feeling helpless and powerless to the situation and under the adult's control, Faith believes that a child learns best when she feels as though she's earned the spanking and understands that it has a purpose in helping her to do better the next time. She will establish joint control of the punishment with the child before proceeding, and then will follow up afterward with a plan in place to help the child or teen avoid a future punishment.
This can make punishments (particularly spankings) a time-consuming process when dealing with Faith. If you prefer a quick fix, she's probably not the right one to handle a punishment thread for you. But if you want to be involved with a thread that will result in a solid bonding experience, then you may get the most out of a thread with Faith.