child placement
Youth custody decision
Child placement is the process of arranging for a child to live with someone other than their biological parents, typically through foster care, adoption, or guardianship.
Social services agencies handle child placement when parents cannot provide adequate care: The court ordered child placement after the investigation.
The term encompasses both temporary arrangements and permanent transfers of custody.
- caseworkersStaff handling client needs
- adoption agenciesOrganizations arranging child placements
- guardianshipLegal care of another
- custodyProtective care or control
- foster homesTemporary family placements
group homes · social workers · orphanages · court order · siblings · adoption law · home studies · family law · attachment theory · adoptive families · juvenile court · permanency · emergency shelters · birth parent · protective services · visitation · removed · aging out
- child welfarefoster care, foster home, protective services, CPS, foster family
- orphanagesorphanage, orphan, foundling, foundlings, waif
- youth welfareyouth welfare, youth services, youth protection, foster care, youth homes
- adoptionadoption, adoption agency, adoption agencies, adoption process, adoption law
- child custodycustody order, shared custody, sole custody, joint custody, legal custody
- ICWAtribal courts, tribal membership, tribal nations, native children, indigenous children