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- Is Foster Parenting For You? - Article by Jeffrey Silla, an experienced foster parent, shares experiences and encouragement for those who are considering the experience of foster parenting.
- Tallahassee Area Foster Parent Association - The TAFPA is working in partnership with the Florida State Foster Parent Association to inform the Legislature and the Public of the needs and concerns of foster children and their biological,foster and adoptive families and children and families at risk.
- KIDS Inc. of Lake County Foster/Adoptive Parent Assoc., Inc. - A local support group for foster/adoptive parents in Lake/Sumter Counties in Central Florida. Meeting dates, membership benefits, calendar, and general fostering information.
- Pennsylvania's State Foster Parent Association - A statewide association addressing the needs and concerns of foster parents, foster children and child placement agencies in Pennsylvania.
- Foster Parenting - Getting Started - If you are just starting out in your quest to become a foster parent, there are some available links to nationwide fostering agencies.
- Montgomery County Foster Parent Association - For relating information and references to the foster parents of Montgomery County, Maryland.
- Foster Parents Legal Solutions - Presenting a pre paid legal plan for foster parents. Affordable coverage offering equal access to legal representation to foster parents all across America.
- Canadian Foster Parent - A resource guide for foster parents to access information and to network with other caregivers around the world. Find links to chat with other caregivers and become a member of a fostercare listserv.
- National Foster Parent Association - A non-profit agency striving to support foster parents and to be a strong voice on behalf of all children.
- Foster Parents Community - Comprehensive web site. Has helpful chat line for foster parents to talk to one another, ask questions, get advice from seasoned experienced foster parents.
Wikipedia Articles
- Fosterage - Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's genetic parents, not the foster-parents, remain his or acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis.
- My Parents Are Aliens - My Parents are Aliens was a British children's comedy on CITV about an eccentric family, which started in 1999. It followed the lives of three orphaned children, Melanie, Josh and Lucy Barker, and their foster parents Brian and Sophie Johnson.
- Foster care - Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in "parent(s)" cares for minor children or young people who have been removed from their biological parents or other custodial adults by state authority. Responsibility for the young person is assumed by the relevant governmental authority and a placement with another family found.
- Casey Family Programs - According to their web site, "Casey Family Programs’ mission is to provide and improve—and ultimately to prevent the need for—foster care." Casey Family Programs works with foster, birth and kinship parents to provide support and loving homes for youth in foster care.
- Islam and children - This article discusses children’s' rights given by Islam, children's duties towards their parents, parents' treatment of their children, both males and females, biological and foster children, also discussed are some of the differences regarding rights with respect to different schools of thoughts.