Foster Homes as a Resource for Adoption of Hard to Place Children A Study of the Development of Six Foster Homes as Adoption Homes for the Children Boarding Therein Through the Nassau County Department of Public Welfare, Mineola, New York.
Abstract
Background of the Study. Adoption is the legal process by which the child of one set of parents becomes the child of other parents. It confers upon the child and the adoptive parents substantially the same mutual rights and responsibilities as those which exist in the natural parent-child relationships. It is regarded as the most complete means whereby family relationships and family life are restored to a child in need of a family. Adoption creates for the child, whose natural familial relationships have been severed, a situation in which new, close relationships are made possible both for the child and his adopting parents. The goal is the incorporation of the child within the new family and providing him with all that family means to its children.
Subject Area
Social work|Social research|Individual & family studies
Recommended Citation
Daly, Helen Therese, "Foster Homes as a Resource for Adoption of Hard to Place Children A Study of the Development of Six Foster Homes as Adoption Homes for the Children Boarding Therein Through the Nassau County Department of Public Welfare, Mineola, New York." (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30725012.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30725012
