Adoption and Foster Care
Foster care in Connecticut is the placement of children with families that have been licensed by the Department of Children and Families for long-term care. A "child in foster care" means a child residing with an adult who is approved by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to stand in loco parentis for the child and on whose behalf foster care payments are being made by DCF. There are currently approximately 6,400 children in foster care in Connecticut. These children live in variety of custodial arrangements: foster care, group homes, independent living, medical care, relative care, residential facility, "SAFE" homes and shelters. Most children in foster care are not available for adoption. At any given time there are between 150 and 170 children, within the foster care system, who are ready for adoption.
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Famous quotes containing the words adoption, foster and/or care:
“Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.”
—T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)