Our Constitution is clear on the importance of the family, which is considered to be the foundation of the nation.
Equally clear is the value our primary law places upon children. Children have the right to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to their development.
Foster care can provide a safe setting – a family home environment, for children and teens while their biological families receive the help, healing or correction needed for them to return or while they are waiting to be adopted. While such situations can prove difficult to improve and untangle, time does not stop for the affected children – they still need a nurturing, caring environment as they grow; and a foster family can provide that.
Foster care is a complex yet important mode of temporary substitute parental care. It requires both the natural, spontaneous warmth of a family and the learned expertise to integrate a vulnerable, often traumatized child into such an environment.
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