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permanently placed children.
By definition, adoption is the legal act of
permanently placing a child with someone other than the child's biological parents.
A Child and Family service offering support, counselling and therapy to adoptive families or those with
a permanently placed child, including special guardians and kinship carers;
Not exact matches
So the debate continues within a paradigm that
places the entire responsibility of
child care on mothers, along with the entire guilt about the possibility that if mum is not doing the caring the
child will be
permanently scarred.
I love Hong Kong and it's an amazing city and a wonderful
place to grow up and raise
children but I never saw myself there
permanently.
We loved it some much that eventually we decided to move here
permanently, turn the
place into our family business and have our first
child!
He adapted his painting techniques to cope: his
children or other assistants held his palettes,
placed paintbrushes in his
permanently curled fingers, and even moved his canvases underneath his paintbrush so that he could hold his arm still to reduce the pain.»
The question of habitual residence is a question of fact, decided on all the circumstances; habitual residence is the
place where the person resides for an appreciable period of time with a «settled intention» a settled intention or purpose is an intent to stay in a
place whether temporarily or
permanently for a particular purpose; and a
child's habitual residence is tied to that of the
child's custodian (s)(Korutowska - Wooff, at para 8).
Once a
child and family are matched, there are many steps that must take
place before the adoption is finalized, but once the adoption is approved by the court, the
child is
permanently a part of their new family.
Ensuring that foster for adoption (i.e. when a
child is
placed with a potential adopter who is an approved foster carer) is not used for voluntary accommodated
children given that the parents may not have had access to legal advice and there may have been no court scrutiny or decision that their
child should be
permanently removed.
If implemented it could result in some
children being
placed with potential adopters despite there having been no court proceedings, no court decision that the
child should be
permanently removed from their parents and no legal advice given to the parents.
After your divorce and
child custody agreement is over - in some cases years after a parenting plan has been in
place - it is normal for a
child to express a wish to live
permanently with your former spouse.
Children and young people
placed in permanent care are offered a secure and nurturing home environment to live
permanently with a family other than their birth family.
An Education service working with
children, parents and schools to improve the educational experience of adopted /
permanently -
placed children;