Foster home care
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051033
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85051033#concept
Variants
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Child placing
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Foster care, Home
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Foster family care
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Fosterage (Foster home care)
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Fostering (Foster home care)
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Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
- Foster home care--Costs
- Foster home care--Data processing
- Foster home care--Decision making
- Foster home care--Economic aspects
- Foster home care--Evaluation
- Foster home care--Finance
- Foster home care--Government policy
- Foster home care--Government policy--US states
- Foster home care--Health aspects
- Foster home care--Information services
- Foster home care--Licenses
- Foster home care--Management
- Foster home care--Mathematical models
- Foster home care--Planning
- Foster home care--Psychological aspects
- Foster home care--Rates
- Foster home care--Research
- Foster home care--Societies, etc
- Foster home care--Standards
- Foster home care--State supervision
- Foster home care--Study and teaching
- Foster home care--US states
- Foster home care--US states--Data processing
- Foster home care--US states--Evaluation
- Foster home care--US states--Finance
Sources
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found: Kühlmann, U. Die irische Ziehkindschaft im europäischen Kontext, 2017:p. 9 (fosterage in Ireland, a system for the rearing of children)
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found: Merriam-Webster Online, viewed 22 May 2017(Fosterage: the act of fostering; a custom once prevalent in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland of entrusting one's child to foster parents to be brought up)
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found: History Ireland website, viewed 22 May 2017:Spring 1997 Features page (Fosterage in the past was a form of child-rearing)
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found: Wikipedia, viewed 22 May 2017(Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage)
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Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
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1986-02-11: new
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2017-08-14: revised
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Alternate Formats