Adoption, half adoption, open adoption, pre-adoption foster care, foster parents with parental authority, regular foster care…..confusing! They say: foster care is helping a child, adoption is having a child. Or: all foster children have behavioral problems and family contacts are a problematic; adoption is about normal children without these complications. That’s why families that adopt have to do it al alone, while foster parents are helped and supervised by a social worker.Couples who want to adopt have to pay a lot of money, foster parents receive and allowance, sometimes also salary. Legislation around foster care and adoption is completely different.
In my country only a limited number of children can be adopted (50 per year) . Adoption from abroad was popular but after scandals and disappointments the number is lower every year (1980: 1599, 2015: 304).
Now for couples that want to adopt no children are availble, while the foster care agencies don’t have enough foster families. Is there an opportunity to come closer together?
Adoption, half adoption, open adoption, pre-adoption foster care, foster parents with parental authority, regular foster care…..confusing! They say: foster care is helping a child, adoption is having a child. Or: all foster children have behavioral problems and family contacts are a problematic; adoption is about normal children without these complications. That’s why families that adopt have to do it al alone, while foster parents are helped and supervised by a social worker.Couples who want to adopt have to pay a lot of money, foster parents receive and allowance, sometimes also salary. Legislation around foster care and adoption is completely different.
In my country only a limited number of children can be adopted (50 per year) . Adoption from abroad was popular but after scandals and disappointments the number is lower every year (1980: 1599, 2015: 304).
Now for couples that want to adopt no children are availble, while the foster care agencies don’t have enough foster families. Is there an opportunity to come closer together?
University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Ground Floor, Meeting Room 2 IFCO 2017 World Conference conference@ifco.info
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