| LC control no. | sh 85051033 |
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| Topical heading | Foster home care |
| Variant(s) | Child placing Foster care, Home Foster family care Fosterage (Foster home care) Fostering (Foster home care) |
| See also | Child care services Child welfare Children--Institutional care Group homes |
| Found in | Kühlmann, U. Die irische Ziehkindschaft im europäischen Kontext, 2017: p. 9 (fosterage in Ireland, a system for the rearing of children) Merriam-Webster Online, viewed 22 May 2017 (Fosterage: the act of fostering; a custom once prevalent in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland of entrusting one's child to foster parents to be brought up) History Ireland website, viewed 22 May 2017: Spring 1997 Features page (Fosterage in the past was a form of child-rearing) Wikipedia, viewed 22 May 2017 (Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage) |
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