Foster children
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzThe majority of all children and young people in Rhineland-Palatinate grow up at home and are lovingly educated, accompanied and supported by their parents. Giving your children a good start in life and seeing them grow up healthy is an important concern and a great wish for parents.
However, there may be situations in life in which parents can no longer take over the education of their children due to their own stress, mental illness, addiction to addictive substances.
In these cases, in addition to accommodation in a child and youth welfare institution, there is also the possibility of placing a child in a foster family for a certain period of time.
There are different forms of foster care:
- Full-time care (long-term care relationship)
- Short-term care (care relationship designed for a shorter period of time),
- Special care (care relationship for children with special needs)
- On-call care (short-term admission to care due to acute emergencies or crises)
- Relationship care (care relationship within the family, e.B grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc.)
- Host families (often used for unaccompanied minor foreigners).
The foster children's service of the Youth Welfare Office checks and places the appropriate foster family for the child. He advises and supports both the foster parents and the biological parents during the period of care.