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  2. Adoption and Safe Families Act - Wikipedia

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    ASFA was enacted in a bipartisan manner to correct problems inherent within the foster care system that deterred adoption and led to foster care drift. Many of these problems had stemmed from an earlier bill, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, [1] although they had not been anticipated when that law was passed, as states decided to interpret that law as requiring biological ...

  3. Probate court - Wikipedia

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    An Orphans' Court was an organization established in the Chesapeake Bay American colonies during colonization.The major goal of the organization was to protect orphaned children and their right to their deceased family member's estate from claims and against abuses by stepparents and others.

  4. Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    Caring for orphans, by Dutch artist Jan de Bray, 1663. The Romans formed their first orphanages around 400 AD. Jewish law prescribed care for the widow and the orphan, and Athenian law supported all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen. Plato (Laws, 927) says: "Orphans should be placed under the care of public ...

  5. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, while the U.S. federal bill Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act would require the family to make rational decisions and prioritize the health of the child, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children contradicts this. This states that the family only has to make sure children are placed in adequate care ...

  6. Foster care in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor who has been made a ward or a non-minor, typically aged 18–21, who volunteers for placement, is placed in a relative placement, a non-related extended family (NREFM) placement, a community family home, an institution, or a group home (residential child care community, residential ...

  7. Foster care - Wikipedia

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    Children of the United Kingdom's Child Migration Programme – many of whom were placed in foster care in Australia. Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state.

  8. Filial responsibility laws - Wikipedia

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    For non-Western societies, the term "filial piety" has been applied to family responsibilities toward elders. A “filial responsibility law” is not the same thing as the provision in United States federal law which requires a “lookback” of five years in the financial records of anyone applying for Medicaid to ensure that the person did ...

  9. Ward (law) - Wikipedia

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    In France, a ward of the State (pupille de l'État) is a minor who is under the responsibility of the State.These wards could be the result of any of: anonymous birth (" né sous X "), found abandoned, unregistered children, children assigned by a court to the care of the Child Social Welfare Service [] (ASE), or minor orphans who suddenly find themselves without parents for whatever reason.