Parenting & Caring Flashcards
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Types of parents & carers
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Biological & social
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Biological parent
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Provided the genetic material to create a fetus
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Social parent
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Many individuals have parenting responsibilities for a child whom they don’t share a genetic relationship
4
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Types of social parents
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Adoption, fostering, step-parent, surrogate
5
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Adoption
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- Legal process where all legal rights & responsibilities transferred from biological parents to adoptive parents
- Long & difficult process
- Controlled & monitored by State Government
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Types of adoption
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Local, permanent care, out-of-home care, Intercountry, interfamily
7
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Local adoption
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Birth parents voluntarily make a decision to have their child adopted
8
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Permanent care
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- Children under responsibility of Family & Community Services
- Children unable to remain in the care of their parents or family
9
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Out-of-home care
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- Children are not able to live with their parents or extended family
- Placed with authorised carers
10
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Intercountry adoption
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- Adoptions btw Aust. & a country
11
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Interfamily adoption
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- Adoption of child who lives in NSW by step-parent or relation
12
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Fostering
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- Alternative living arrangements for children whose parents are temporarily unable to care for them in their family home
- Caregivers are volunteers who are paid a fortnightly allowance to help meet needs of child
13
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Step-parenting
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- When a man or woman marries or forms a de facto relationship with a partner who has a child or children from a previous relationship, they become a step-parent
14
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Surrogacy
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- Arrangement btw a couple who cannot have a baby and a woman who gets pregnant on behalf of the couple
- Must adopt the child to be listed on the birth certificate as the child’s legal parent
15
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Carer
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A person who provides ongoing personal care, support & assistance to another individual who needs it
