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foster care
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foster care

Care of children away from the home when the family is unable to fill its normal role. Foster families offer children a closer approximation to normal family living than other types of substitute care.

Children require foster care for a variety of reasons such as the death of their parents, parental inability to provide financially, and violence in the home. Unlike adoption, legal custody and responsibility for the child's care rests with the natural parents; contact between children and their families is expected. Foster care can result in either adoption, a long period of placement terminating in return home, placement for the duration of childhood with little change, or repeated placement.

There are an estimated (1991) 36,700 children in foster care in England and Wales.



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Intended for child care professionals who specialize in foster children recovering from abuse or trauma, this evidence-based guide outlines the basic principles that govern best practices and outcomes for placement.
Fostering a child's recovery; family placement for traumatized ... by SciTech Book News
Foster children live with you in your home for a number of weeks, months or even years, depending on their needs.
FILL THE VOID WITH FOSTERING VOID WITH; WHEN children leave home to ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Drawing on interviews with foster parents and former foster children, this book gives advice on day-to-day concerns when caring for foster children, such as welcoming the new child, foster children as part of a foster family, interactions with the child's biological family, and understanding how abuse and neglect have affected the child.
A guidebook for raising foster children. (reprint, 2000) by Reference & Research Book News
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