foster parents
Non-biological legal guardians
Foster parents are adults who take a child into their home temporarily, providing care when the biological parents cannot.
The arrangement is typically overseen by a government agency or court.
Foster parents may eventually adopt the child, but the role is distinct from adoption—it's caregiving without permanent legal parenthood.
She was raised by foster parents until age twelve.
- permanency planningChild welfare placement strategy
- adoptionLegal family formation
- open adoptionPlacement preserving birth family contact
- kinship careRelatives raising displaced children
- child placementAssigning minors to guardians
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- caregiverscaregiver, carer, mothers, babysitter, fathers
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