foster parenting
Non-biological child-rearing
Foster parenting is the care of children by adults who are not their biological parents, typically arranged through government agencies when birth parents cannot provide safe or adequate care.
Foster parents provide temporary homes while families work toward reunification or permanent placement is arranged.
The arrangement may last weeks or years: They've been doing foster parenting for a decade.
Distinguished from adoption, which transfers legal parenthood permanently.
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- placementPutting somewhere specific
- safe havenProtected place of shelter
- kinshipState of being related
child welfare · reunification · caseworker · home study · biological · custody · nurture · temporary · permanency · bonding · attachment · trauma · resilience · second chance · aging out · homecoming · sibling · visitation
- brood carenest building, incubation, brooding, maternal care, hatching
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- self-sacrificehuman shield, selflessness, self-denial, renunciation, forfeit
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Legal family formation
legal adoption · legal guardianship · permanent custody · guardianship · closed adoption
foster parentinginstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
group home · orphanage · residential care · children's home · state custody
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