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- Generally refers to the system set up to protect children who are abused, neglected or abandoned or whose parents or primary caretakers are unable to fulfill their parenting obligations because of illness, emotional problems or a host of other reasons.
- In such latter cases, the placement into foster care by parents may have been voluntary.
- Children who are involuntarily removed from their families are placed in the state's custody by the court and reside with foster parents or in group homes or residential centres.
- A foster family must defer many decisions about a child's welfare to a state or county social worker. Although a child may remain in a foster home for years as a foster child, the state can (and has) removed foster children for a variety of reasons. An adopted child, however, can only be removed for the same reasons as a birth child.