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Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Lori Askeland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Adoption and foster care is a new and burgeoning area of historical and interdisciplinary research. Too often, however, birth parents, adoptive parents, foster
Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Lori Askeland
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Greenwood

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"Divided into three sections, this collection of original essays reviews the practice of adoption, orphanage placement and foster care from the colonial period
Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Richard B. McKenzie
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: SAGE

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Exploring the only option for a growing army of children who cannot be placed for adoption or fostering, this text demonstrates from a large-scale survey of orp
Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 106
Authors: Jill Hamilton
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-16 - Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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According to A.B.C. News, approximately 800,000 children every year come in contact with the foster care system. While the system is set up to take in children
On Their Own
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Martha Shirk
Categories: Social Science
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Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decisi