Fostering, unlike adoption, is where a family (or a state run residential care unit) take a child into their home without becoming their legal guardians and parents. Foster care can either be long or short term, and it gives children who cannot live with their own families a stable home environment.
Some of the reasons children go into foster care include illness, bereavement, where a court has ruled it in their best interests, or where the family unit has broken down. In many instances, the foster family are relatives of the child.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to provide a foster child who may have come from an unhappy home, the care and nurturing they require to grow into well rounded, developed and happy children and adults, but it can be a very rewarding task.
Some of the reasons children go into foster care include illness, bereavement, where a court has ruled it in their best interests, or where the family unit has broken down. In many instances, the foster family are relatives of the child.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to provide a foster child who may have come from an unhappy home, the care and nurturing they require to grow into well rounded, developed and happy children and adults, but it can be a very rewarding task.
