Support Systems for Children in Need
Various support systems are in place to ensure that children in need can grow up safely.
This card news provides an overview of the foster care system and support programs for adoptive families, including key details, eligibility, and application procedures.
For those interested, please check the detailed information in the card news below.
Foster care provides a warm shelter for children in need.
Become a foster parent for children in need.
Foster care protects children in need within a family setting.
✅ What is a child in need of protection?
A child under 18 years old who has no guardian or is unable to be cared for by their guardian due to abuse or other circumstances. Protection can be extended until the age of 24 at the child's request, even if they are over 18.
✅ What is foster care?
A system that temporarily places children in need of protection with families that meet the standards established by child welfare laws, ensuring that they have no history of sexual offenses, domestic violence, child abuse, or mental illness.
✅ Types of foster care:
Temporary foster care, professional foster care, general foster care.
✅ Support for foster families:
Child-rearing subsidies, living, medical, and educational benefits, specialized child protection expenses, temporary protection costs, child product purchase costs, injury insurance for foster children, psychological assessments and treatments, housing support, and case management.
✅ Application process for foster families:
Application → Eligibility verification and home investigation → Training for foster parents → Recognition of foster parent qualifications → Placement of children.
Support for happy parenting through adoptive family support programs.
Every child has the right to grow up in a family.
✅ Reform of the public adoption system:
To ensure that adoptions are in the 'best interest of the child', the adoption procedures previously conducted by private agencies are now under the responsibility of the state and local governments to comply with international norms.
✅ Support for domestic adoptive families:
Adoption child-rearing allowances, subsidies for raising children with disabilities, support for adoption costs, and congratulatory payments for adoption.
✅ Key roles of local governments: Determining and protecting children eligible for adoption, monitoring parenting situations, and supporting adoption procedures.
✅ Support for the adoption contemplation period:
Birth parents may consent to adoption only after at least one week (the contemplation period) following the child's birth, during which they are expected to care for the child.
✅ Eligibility for support:
Unmarried or divorced parents who are not in a marital relationship as per their marriage certificate, within 40 days before the expected delivery date or within 7 days after giving birth.
✅ Support contents:
In-home support (postpartum support personnel costs, child essentials purchase costs), postpartum support personnel costs when residing in family welfare facilities for single mothers, and postpartum care center fees.
Foster care provides a warm shelter for children in need.
Become a foster parent for children in need.
Support for happy parenting through adoptive family support programs.
Every child has the right to grow up in a family.
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