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Definition of Foster care
◦ Foster care is a setting where children
are placed in welfare agency or
rehabilitation centre or with some
certified caregiver as their parents
are unable to take responsibilities of
the children for some reasons. The
purpose of foster care is to give a
safe and secure environment for the
distressed children(Downes,2019).

When did the foster care system
started ?
◦ The system of foster care was started
due to the development of English
Poor Law of 1562 (Rymph,2017).
◦ The law was established to ensure
protection and security of poor and
orphaned children in terms of foods,
clothes, education and habitat by well
-established families.
◦ In 1636, Benjamin Eaton, the first
foster child who lived in Jamestown
(nation’s first colony)(Rymph,2017).

Why is a child put in Foster
Care ?
◦ There are different reasons for which a child is
put into the foster care system.
◦ The reasons are
◦ Abusive behaviour,
◦ negligence in care,
◦ illness,
◦ incarnation,
◦ death,
◦ drug abuse of parents(Fitz-Gibbon and Fitz-
Gibbon, 2017).
◦ Sometimes, law breaking decisions of a child
will lead to the verdict of foster care provision.
◦ Parents volunteer the foster care in some
circumstances when they are unable to take
care of a child due to financial or societal
issues.