Child Development: Types of families

Foster: 

- Long term foster care, child stays with family for an extended period of time.

- Short term foster care, child may only be in care for a few hours, days, weekend etc

- Respite for a disabled child who needs 24 hour care.

- Parent working away and no one to look after them. 

- Parent/s in prison.

- Abuse within family.

- Child is unsafe to live at home with biological family.

Care homes:

- Small groups of children are looked after by carers in a family like structure. By social services and designed to be short.

Adoptive:

- Parents are legally responsible; they aren't biologically related to child.

- No reversal, no financial help. Long process and a judge decides whether it's allowed.

- Parents are not alive.

- Same sex couples.

- To give…