Care Systems
What is a care system?
A way in which the government or social services look after people who need help.
What is adoption?
A legal process where non-biological parents become the legal guardians of a child.
What is foster care?
What is an orphan?
A child who has lost one or both parents.
Who is a child?
Anyone under 18
Who regulates children's homes in St. Lucia?
The government of St. Lucia.
Why might a mother give up a child for adoption?:
Reasons can include feeling unready, financial instability, or medical issues.
Why do children go into foster care?
Why might a child be placed in an orphanage?
: Because their parents cannot care for them or they have lost their parents.
What are children's rights?
Name a type of organization that helps with children's care.
Non-Governmental Organizations (N.G.O.) like the Roman Catholic Church.
Name a reason someone might want to adopt.
To extend their family or due to a religious duty.
Name a reason a child might return home from foster care
A relative is able to take care of the child or the parents have improved their situation.
Name a reason why parents might abandon their child.
Poverty or mental illness.
This 1989 treaty, which became law in 1990, was signed by almost every country in the world and outlines protections for children’s rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Chilld.
What is the role of the Department of Human Services?
To arrange and place children in foster care, orphanages, or adoptive homes
Describe the difference between adoption and foster care.
Adoption is permanent, while foster care is temporary.
Describe the typical duration of foster care.
Usually for a short time until a permanent solution is found.
What are "barrel children"?
: Children whose parents have gone overseas and are left in the care of relatives
This international organization was instrumental in the creation and adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, to protect children's rights globally.
The United Nations
What is a foster care home?
A temporary living situation for children who cannot live with their biological parents.
What does permanent adoption mean?
The child becomes a legal part of the adoptive family and cannot be returned to biological parents.
What is the role of foster parents?
Describe the situation of children living in orphanages.
They live in institutions without parental care and often have no relatives to care for them.
Name a right that every child has.