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Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children Learning Center

Adoption is the practice in which an adult assumes the role of parent for a child who is not the adult's biological offspring. The process usually involves some legal paperwork.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Foster care is full-time substitute care of children outside their own home by people other than their biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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