All about foster families
What is a foster family?
Foster family is one of the forms of help for children who, for some reasons, cannot be under the care of their biological parents. People who are not parents of a child take care of him, giving him a chance to grow up in conditions close to natural. The child is placed in a foster family or a family children's home until the difficulties that gave rise to the child's placement have been overcome.
Who can become a foster family?
Starting a foster family is a task that we will not undertake alone, already having our own family. Both candidates and their loved ones are often required to be consciously involved in the cause. Foster parents are required to pass the qualification stage. There are several avenues through which you may become a licensed foster family:
A married couple
People in long-term, cohabitating relationships are obliged to engage in a foster family together. The lack of consent or willingness of one of the spouses excludes the possibility of creating a foster family by the couple.
At the stage of conversations with psychologists, biological children are also asked for their opinion on starting a foster family.
Families with children
If you are a biological parent, the opinion of your own children is extremely important – especially if you live together.
Single people
If you are a person open to big changes in your life, that's great! Single people (unmarried or divorced) can become a foster family, but it is important to carefully discern your life plans with the best interests of the child in mind.
Types of foster families in Poland
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
About Foster Family
• they maintain 24/7 care and upbringing,
• treat the child with respect and dignity,
• care for education and kindle child's passions and hobbies,
• provide access to healthcare,
• meet child's emotional, developmental, societal and religious needs,
• shelter from unlawful third party interference with child's personal life,
• enable contact with biological parents and other people close to the child, unless, due to child's well-being, court decides otherwise.
Do foster parents have the same rights as biological parents?
Child's contact with biological parents
Requirements for
foster family candidates
Foster parent's rights and obligations
When do foster parents have time to relax?
Support for foster parents
Does being a foster family ever end?
Financial support for foster families
What a foster family is?
Who can act as a foster family?
Why foster family instead of a child care home?
What is important during the evaluation of an unrelated foster family?