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Children, who are removed from their biological or adoptive parents, or other legal guardians, are placed in foster care in a variety of settings. They may be placed in the care of relatives other than the family members involved in the neglect or abuse (kin placement), non-relatives, therapeutic or treatment foster care, or in an institution or group home. Foster care is full-time substitute care of children outside their own home by people other than their biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians.
The estimated 518,000 American children currently in foster care are among the most at-risk children in American society. Research …show more content…
Nearly half of the children were not comfortable revealing their foster care status to other students, and some clearly limited their interactions with peers because of this aversion. The more troubled foster children became withdrawn from others, in either a shy or an aggressively defensive manner. Other children apparently had greater social interactions with peers but had problems controlling various aspects of their behavior in school. One of the most striking and clearly unique experiences of the participating foster children was their unease or reluctance to disclose their foster care status to …show more content…
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