A household in which foster care is provided to a child who has been removed from his or her birth or adoptive parents, usu. for abuse or neglect. • A foster home is usu. an individual home, but it can also be a group home. [Cases: Infants 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§ 10–12.]
foster home. A household in which foster care is provided to a child who has been removed from his or her birth or adoptive parents, usu. for abuse or neglect. • A foster home is usu. an individual home, but it can also be a group home. [Cases: Infants 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§
foster, adj. 1. (Of a relationship) involving parental care given by someone not related by blood or legal adoption (foster home). 2. (Of a person) giving or receiving parental care to or from someone not related by blood or legal adoption (foster parent) (foster child). foster, vb. To give care to (something or someone); esp.,
foster-care drift. The phenomenon that occurs when children placed in foster care remain in that system, in legal limbo, for too many years of their developmental life before they are reunited with their parents or freed for adoption and placed in permanent homes. • The Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed in 1997 to
out-of-home placement. Family law. The placing of a child in a living arrangement outside the child’s home (as in foster care or institutional care), usu. as the result of abuse or neglect; specif., in a child-abuse or child-neglect case, state action that removes a child from a parent’s or custodian’s home and places the child
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foster-care placement. The (usu. temporary) act of placing a child in a home with a person or persons who provide parental care for the child. Cf. OUT-OF-HOME PLACEMENT T. [Cases: Infants 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§ 10–12.]
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Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act. A 1980 federal statute whose purpose was to force states to use reasonable efforts (1) to avoid removing children from their homes, (2) to reunite families when children had been removed because of abuse or neglect, and (3) when reunification failed, to terminate parental rights and place the children
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case plan. A written procedure for the care and management of a child who has been removed from his or her home and placed in foster care or in an institution. • The case plan includes (1) a description of the place where the child has been placed, (2) a plan for providing the child
residential care. Family law. Foster-care placement involving residence in a group home or institution. • This type of foster care is most commonly used for adolescents who have been adjudged to be delinquents or status offenders.