PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Foster Care, Avail, Reciprocal Altruism
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Explain why adoption occurs (evolutionarily as well as within families) Discuss how research supports the view of adoption as both a risk factor and as a protective intervention. When children are cared for by someone other than their parents (beyond child care) When children are cared for by someone other than their biological relation. Adoption: the permanent, legal placement of an abandoned, relinquished, or orphaned child within a family of relatives (kinship adoption), or within an unrelated family (non-kinship adoption) Foster care: temporary long- or short-term out-of-home placement for children whose parents are unable to care for them. Foster care can be in a family, or in a group home Institutionalization: in which a child"s placement is in an established organization (orphanage, children"s home, etc. ) 1 in 5 canadians is touched by adoption. Are adopted, have a family member who adopted put up to adoption, know. Adopt a waiting child (through the ministry of children and family development)
