foster care
the raising or supervision of foster children, as orphans or delinquents, in an institution, group home, or private home, usually arranged through a government or social-service agency that provides remuneration for expenses.
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At one table, they might hear about children who enter foster care with their belongings stuffed into garbage bags.
Algorithms now decide which children enter foster care, which patients receive medical care, which families get access to stable housing.
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | Karen Hao | December 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewStudies have shown foster care youth are at higher risk for homelessness, the prison pipeline and sex trafficking.
Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey Hosts Virtual Holiday Gala | cmurray | December 3, 2020 | Essence.comDistrict authorities have removed the surviving children, ages 3 and 11, and placed them in foster care.
After mother, partner are charged in toddler’s death, D.C. police say siblings were also abused | Peter Hermann | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostLGBT kids are an outsize number of people in the foster care population, and it’ll undermine the ability of the program to operate.
Supreme Court appears poised to rule for foster care agency against LGBTQ couples | Chris Johnson | November 4, 2020 | Washington Blade
During August and September, UNICEF had helped 700 children find a parent or extended family or placed a child in foster care.
Surely it would be preferable to place Issy in foster care than attempt to kill her.
The Mommy Blogger Who Tried to Kill Her Autistic Daughter Talks to Dr. Phil | Elizabeth Picciuto | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf the issue that brought a child into foster care is homelessness, child welfare systems must find parents housing.
Q.A.H. was placed back in foster care, this time with a new couple.
His only child, J, who is now 3, was removed from the hospital immediately after she was born and placed in foster care.
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