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- Title: Inside the Foster Family: What Research Tells US About the Experience of Foster Carers' Children (Report)
- Author : Adoption & Fostering
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 269 KB
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Introduction Foster family care is, and has been for decades, the main form of out-of-home care for children and adolescents in North America (Bagnell, 1980; Steinhauer, 1991; Crosson-Tower, 1998; Miedema, 1999). Every day thousands of young people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to live with their parents, whether temporarily or permanently, are placed in foster family homes. Foster care is based on the assumption that family life can make an integral contribution to a child's healthy growth and development. For many children who enter the care of the state and are unable to return home, foster care provides a family-like environment. Broadly defined, foster family care ranges from kinship care through regular foster family care to treatment foster family care. Each form of care is designed to meet a certain type of need faced by a child or young person who can no longer reside with his or her family of origin but does not need to be placed residentially. While few published reports indicate the actual number of foster families currently operating in different jurisdictions, Nuske (2004) estimates, for example, that there were 8,120 active foster families in Australia in 2001.