Product Description: This title teaches readers that all families are different, and that some families include foster parents.

Product Description: If your parents were unable to care for you, where would you go? Do you have family or friends who would take you in and support you? Unfortunately, many children dont have this option. The foster care system was put in place to help young people who find themselves without homes...read more

Product Description: Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting with neighbors and even taking piano lessons...read more

Product Description: Readers examine the issues surrounding foster care through opposing viewpoints expressed by various professionals and individuals. Includes organizations to contact, bibliography, and index. 105 pages.

Introduces the people and procedures involved in foster care, and the feelings, reactions, and concerns of new foster children.

Explains why one goes to a foster home, who foster parents are, what to do if things don't work out, and other matters regarding foster care

Examines the foster home care system which enables children from troubled families to be placed temporarily in other authorized homes. Includes a brief discussion of adoption.