(1) The foster care may be used for temporary placement of those infants who are ultimately to be given for adoption.
Image Source: youthvoices.net
In foster care, the child may be placed in another family for a short or extended period of time, depending upon the circumstances where the child’s own parent usually visit regularly and eventually after the rehabilitation, where the children may return to their own homes.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
The State Government may make rules for the purposes of carrying out the scheme of foster care programme of children.
Comment:
This section makes provision for foster-care of such children who are ultimately to be given in adoption. According to provision contained in sub-section (2); the infant or child may emporarily be placed in another family for a short time where his own parents usually visit regularly and eventually after rehabilitation he may return to his own home.
Sub-section (3) empowers the State Government to make rules for the foster-care programme of children.