foster home
Caretaker family dwelling
A foster home is a household that takes in children who cannot live with their biological parents, providing temporary care until the child can be reunited with family or placed permanently elsewhere.
Foster homes are licensed by government agencies and receive financial support for the child's care.
She spent three years in a foster home before being adopted.
Putting somewhere specific
- caseworkerAgency employee helping clients
- social workerHuman services professional
- child servicesYouth protection agency
- matchingIdentical in appearance
transition · temporary · respite care · kinship care · licensing · background check · permanency · reunification
One providing daily assistance
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- bondingForming close connections
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- stabilityResistance to displacement
routine · guidance · upbringing · mentorship · encouragement · patience · affection · trust
Freedom from harm
- refugePlace of safety
- havenShelter from danger
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- protectionGuarding against harm
security · safe environment · warmth · belonging · acceptance · second chance · new beginning · fresh start
Legal family formation
- adoptive parentOne who legally claims another's child
- finalizationAct of completing something
- waiting childMinor available for adoption
- adopteeOne legally taken in
legal adoption · open adoption · closed adoption · consent · permanency · match · adoption day · post-adoption
placement
Putting somewhere specific
- caseworkerAgency employee helping clients
- social workerHuman services professional
- child servicesYouth protection agency
matching · transition · temporary · respite care · kinship care · licensing · background check · permanency · reunification · aging out
caregiver
One providing daily assistance
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- bondingForming close connections
- attachmentConnection or fondness
stability · routine · guidance · upbringing · mentorship · encouragement · patience · affection · trust · trauma-informed
safety
Freedom from harm
protection · security · safe environment · warmth · belonging · acceptance · second chance · new beginning · fresh start · hope
adoption
Legal family formation
- adoptive parentOne who legally claims another's child
- finalizationAct of completing something
- waiting childMinor available for adoption
adoptee · legal adoption · open adoption · closed adoption · consent · permanency · match · adoption day · post-adoption
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, child services, protective services, child protective services
- animal shelteranimal shelter, shelter worker, shelter cat, animal control, humane society
- family lossorphan, motherless, fatherless, parentless, abandonment
- residential facilitiesassisted living, senior living, residential facility, halfway house, boarding house
- child support rolesguardian, legal guardian, stepparent, step-parent, grandparent
- child custodychild custody, custody order, shared custody, sole custody, joint custody
foster homelegal adoption
Court-sanctioned family transfer
forever home · adoption · adoptive family · permanent home · guardianship
foster homeorphanage
Institution housing parentless children
group home · residential facility · children's home · institutional care · juvenile detention
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