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Child Care Developing: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care developing's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care developing welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care developing-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care developing's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care developing receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care developingren's needs.
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care developing welfare service. Of the total number of child care developingren receiving child care developing welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute care programs include foster family care, institutional care, and adoption.
There are two key factors that I wish to explore in this chapter. The first is the essentially social nature of the child care developing's developing understanding of reality and the second is the role of the child care developing as an active and, initially at least, an equal participant in this social process. Although social processes in most descriptions are important to the child care developing's developing understanding of the world, the process of development itself is often seen as subject to conditions that lead us to a relatively individualistic point of view in relation to experience and understanding. |
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