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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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States have an incentive to place children in private foster homes, as each child brings in thousands in federal dollars.
Keeping it in the family: a Los Angeles campaign organizes against ... by Wessler, Seth Freed / Colorlines Magazine
Kimberly Lewis, a staff attorney at the Western Center for Law and Poverty who worked on the lawsuit, said the board's vote to spend $90 million is a good first step in improving services to the 40,000 children in foster homes and at risk of entering the child-protection system.
$90 MILLION TO BE SPENT FOR KIDS' MENTAL HEALTH by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Regardless of who foots the bill, states are granted latitude in determining the characteristics of their foster care programs, and as a result, licensing requirements for foster homes and compensation for caregivers vary dramatically across states.
Economic incentives and foster care placement by Duncan, Brian; Argys, Laura / Southern Economic Journal
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