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Child Care Ment: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care ment's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care ment 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 ment-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care ment's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care ment 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 mentren's needs.
Both Linton (55, 956) and Riesman and associates (80, 1950) have described the relationship between child care ment-rearing practices and the personality patterns which the child care ment evolves as he grows up. Differences in people's personality, according to Linton, are due "less to their genes than to their nurseries." Several considerations suggest caution in accepting this emphasis on the direct relation between the child care ment's personality development and the parents' attitudes toward the child care ment, the amount of mothering that he receives, and other specific child care ment-care practices:
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care ment welfare service. Of the total number of child care mentren receiving child care ment 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. |
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