Adoption and foster care
By: Kathlyn Gay.
Series: Issues in focus
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Hillside, NJ, U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Foster home care -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Adoption -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Foster home care.; Adoption.
Description: Describes how these placement systems work and reveals the feelings of young people who find homes through adoption and foster care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Those who wait -- Foster care : yesterday and today -- Living in foster families -- Group care -- Being adopted -- Joys and sorrows of adoption -- Children with special needs -- “Mixed” foster and adoptive families -- Crises in the child care system -- Supporting and preserving families -- People who protect children -- Notes and references by chapter -- Further reading.