foster family
Non-biological care household
A foster family is a household that takes in and cares for children who cannot live with their biological parents, typically through a government-supervised arrangement.
The placement may be temporary while birth parents address issues, or may extend indefinitely: He was placed with a foster family at age six.
Foster families provide care without the legal permanence of adoption.
- permanency planningChild welfare placement strategy
- court dateScheduled judicial appearance
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- homeOne's personal residence
- safe havenProtected place of shelter
kinship care · placement · guardianship · sibling · caseworker · respite care · attachment theory · social worker · stability · tribal sovereignty · support · forever home · love · open arms · second chance · temporary · aging out · hearth
- orphan careorphanages, orphans, foundlings, wards, half-orphans
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family termsparents, mothers, fathers, single parent, son
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, friend, flirting, closeness
- loved onesspouse, partner, mother, father, parents
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
foster familyadoptive family
Relatives through legal placement
adopted family · adoption · legal guardians · permanent home
foster familybirth family
Relatives by blood origin
family of origin · blood relatives · biological parents · birth parents
foster familygroup home
Supervised shared residence
orphanage · children's home · institutional care · state care · institution
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