| Foster care is the temporary care of children who | | | | those entrusted with the fostering responsibilities |
| for various reasons cannot stay with their natural | | | | associated with infants must be especially qualified |
| parents. Fostering by this definition is not the | | | | for their role. It is all-to-easy to bond with a baby and |
| establishment of permanent, legal parental rights and | | | | knowing that one day it will be taken from you is an |
| responsibilities. These rights and responsibilities are the | | | | eventuality that you must be psychologically prepared |
| province of foster parents. | | | | for. Their future is not in your hands, only their |
| Even infant children are placed in foster care until the | | | | present. Many foster carers derive a great deal of |
| authorities make a decision regarding the | | | | satisfaction in caring for infants and are able to |
| appropriateness of their being returned to their | | | | graciously give them up in the knowledge that the |
| natural parents. Sometimes it is deemed inappropriate | | | | best possible solution for the childâs long |
| for them to be returned to their biological parent or | | | | term welfare has been found. Others discover that |
| parents and the baby then remains in foster care | | | | they want to be the ones responsible for the |
| until a foster parent is found who can take over the | | | | infantâs future and apply to adopt the child |
| duties and responsibilities of fostering. | | | | themselves. |
| Foster caring of infants can be particularly difficult and | | | | |