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What is the difference between fostering and adoption?


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Fostering is a temporary care arrangement and our goal is to reunite the child with their birth parents. Foster children remain the legal children of their birth parents.


Adoption, on the other hand, is a legal process where an adopted child assumes the rights of a birth child of the family.


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