Such openness includes the provision of regular information to the birth parents about the everyday life of their child, mutual planning of the child's situation, and, most beneficially, invitations for face-to-face encounters between youth, foster parents, and birth parents. Both parties' mutual...
For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements. Understanding the experiences of parents is therefore essential in order to develop effective social work practice with parents that can also ensure the bes...
This study examines the behaviors and attitudes of 324 Israeli foster parents toward birth parents and caseworkers. Although the foster parents generally expressed positive attitudes toward both birth parents and caseworkers, their contacts with both were minimal. Most foster parents did not encourage ...
In cases where parents were well informed about their children''s lives, they found it was much easier to have good contact with their children during their time in care. 展开 关键词: Birth parents parenthood foster children foster carers ...
Thank you to the parents who open their hearts and lives to receive children like me. Through the years, I’ve become convinced that God’s very best plan for children is that they be raised by healthy, capable, loving, biological parents who are fully equipped to meet their physical and...
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Foster carers are usually required to take part in a series of training sessions, both before and after their approval as carers. Over the years, the style and content of these sessions have continued to evolve. Here Anne Gilchrist and Pauline Hoggan describe and assess a recent initiative by...
I have been working with children for 33 years. Foster parents and adoptive parents are special parents…they take into their homes and their hearts children with broken hearts! May God bless you and all those who walk the path of our Lord, Jesus Christ, taking all children to Himself!
Since 2008, the center has rescued more than 20 wild elephants. Each has at least two caregivers called "elephant parents." So far, the center has 27 mahouts working in shifts accompanying the animals around the clock, monitoring their health and preparing them for release into the wild. ...
Our role as foster parents is tough. Gut-wrenchingly tough to console grief-stricken children on situations they might not understand. Although an emotional nightmare, agoodbye visitwith birthfamily, is a means of closure. Our foster daughter intenselystruggled with unresolved grieffrom her abandonmen...