The relationship between foster care and adoption is often misunderstood. Foster care is similar to adoption in that a family is caring for a child born to different parents. However, there is no transfer of parental rights to foster parents as with adoptive parents. Instead, care is given to a child until he or she can be reunited with his or her birth parents. Alternatively, care can be provided until his or her birth parents' parental rights are fully terminated by a court ruling and the state agency deems the child available to adoptive parents. Sometimes, a child's adoptive home is the same as his or her foster home. Other times, a child's temporary home remains temporary.
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