Which makes this foster-care thing so frustrating.    From Wordnik.com.  [badbadzoot Diary Entry] Reference

He says foster-care children need safe, permanent homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

She's also handled plenty of harrowing foster-care cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference

Without Libby, Sara would have been in the foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motive For Marriage]

She says foster-care social workers want to reduce their caseload.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

His three grandnieces never qualified for federal foster-care aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

USATODAY. com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

Gerstenzang says a foster-care adoption is different from a private one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those hoping to adopt look closer at U.S. options] Reference

At college in Buffalo, he thought he had left the foster-care system behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former foster kid overcame odds, with help from many friends, to earn law degree] Reference

On July 1 the foster-care system in Cleveland cut me loose from state custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up A Foster Kid] Reference

When Michael was 9, his parents returned his little sister to the foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  ['He Walked Like Us, He Talked Like Us'] Reference

What can I possible say to a foster-care boy that would make any difference in his life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [whitehelmet Diary Entry] Reference

This includes foster-care grants, assistance to child-headed households and food parcels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address on The Occasion of The 4th Anniversary of The Partnership Against AIDS] Reference

Federal law encourages states to place foster-care children with relatives whenever possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

The assistance includes foster-care grants, assistance to child-headed households and food parcels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address in celebration of national health provider's prayer day] Reference

Fabregas legally adopted that girl in 1999 and allowed his foster-care license to lapse after that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes or Villains?] Reference

Long out of touch, he learned late last winter that his boys had re-entered the foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference

"The assistance includes foster-care grants, assistance to child-headed households and food parcels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The crisis will only get worse: 1 million children may be in the foster-care system by the year 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference

She says relatives adopt some of the foster-care children, especially teenagers, who are hardest to place.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

He serves on the board of the Barker Foundation, which has a program that focuses on foster-care adoptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former foster kid overcame odds, with help from many friends, to earn law degree] Reference

They are adopting a rising number of foster-care children, from 15% in 1998 to 23% in 2003, HHS records show.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

Many foster-parents did not ensure the children's schooling and as a result lost their foster-care allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Foster parents want more training, a role in foster-care decision-making and benefits such as health coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Foster parents getting organized] Reference

More broadly, the episodes have raised worrisome questions about the state of the nation's foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightmare In Pleasantville] Reference

New foster-care laws are being considered in Massachusetts and several other states since the federal law passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Extends Foster-Care Help to Young Adults] Reference

Medicaid provides health insurance to over 28 million children, including children in our nation's foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaming Medicaid Hurts Taxpayers and the Vulnerable] Reference

With adoption, not only are foster-care payments terminated, but then there is a ‘reward’ from the federal treasury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child ] Reference

He lived in at least six different homes in Rochester, N.Y., until his 18th birthday, when his foster-care aid came to an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Adopt us, foster teenagers urge in ad campaign] Reference

The high court threw out the enhanced attorney fees for lawyers who sued to force dramatic changes in Georgia's foster-care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debt Collectors Can Face Lawsuits for Mistakes, Court Says] Reference

According to Kholisile Lobi of the Aid Centre many children in rural towns were not going to school because they are in foster-care.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And it made Ieshia, who had ended up in the foster-care system after running away from home, think about reconciling with her mother.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Real Housewives of D.C.' star Turner keeps it real, founding program to aid girls] Reference

As Nicole's foster-care dad since she was 6 weeks old, Kevin Trudeau saw his grandniece's first steps and heard her first word, "Hi.".    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

Most will receive adoption subsidies, which are often similar to federal foster-care payments and much higher than public assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children] Reference

I am one of 60 orphans in an OFA program that brings foster teens to Washington to speak to national leaders about foster-care issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up A Foster Kid] Reference

Yet in most states, a child still loses foster-care funding on his 18th birthday unless he will soon finish high school or obtain a GED.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Adopt us, foster teenagers urge in ad campaign] Reference