What is the difference between adoption and foster care?

Answer 1

Foster care is a situation where children are treated and cared for as a member of a family but they are legally a ward of the state and may retain a connection with their birth parents. Adoption means that you take on the name of and become a legal child to the people that have adopted you.

Answer 2

A foster child is temporarily in the custody of an individual, couple, or group home, but the legal guardian for that child is still the state.

An adopted child is permanently in the custody of an individual or couple, who are the child's permanent legal guardian(s)

Answer 3

Foster children are cared for by a foster parent, this "parent" has custody of this child.

With Adoption a child is handed over to a new set of parents who have gone through all the necessary things to become the parent of that child.

This child will not be taken away from them and has a steady, stable home that most foster homes can not provide fully.

Answer 4

adoptive parents is like a new mother and father is are adopted don't feel that your adoptive parents are taking over your birth parents.... foster carers get a lot of money to look after you but adoptive parents only get the money normal parents have e.g, child benefits hope this information helps you xx

Answer 5

When you have a child in foster care, the state is still the legal guardian and the child may still have contact with the biological family. Foster parents have no legal rights to the child, they are just care givers. When a child is adopted, they take on the name of the parents and become equal to any biological children. I have three children, two adopted and one biological. My adopted children are just as much my children as my one biological children. Our names are on their birth certificates as their parents, etc. Their birth parents have NO RIGHTS to them at all. Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Foster parents get a stipend or board rate for the foster children; they may also get funding for specific things, like a clothing allowance.

Adoptive parents may qualify for an adoption subsidy; generally these are only available for special needs children

• medical
• extreme behavioral (autism, etc)
• significant developmental delays
• mixed race
• sibling groups
• children over 8 years old