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Encyclopedia Articles (3)

Foster Care

1,252 words, approx. 5 pages

Foster Care Foster care is an arrangement by which children live temporarily with people other than their own families, who for various reasons are unable to care for them; often, the reason for foste... Read more

Foster Care

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Foster Care Foster care is full-time substitute care of children outside their own homes by people other than the biological parents. Children are placed in foster care for a number of reasons. Some a... Read more

Institutionalization/Institutionalized Children

694 words, approx. 3 pages

Institutionalization/Institutionalized Children Children who are cared for in a facility outside their family home, also referred to as residential care. Institutionalization is the placing of emotion... Read more

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Foster Care?

1,527 words, approx. 6 pages

"A study by the National Association of Social Workers found that 80% of inmates in Illinois prisons had at one time been foster children" (Foster Cycling 1). It stands to reason the foster care syst... Read more