Fostering or Adoption?
Adoption is a legal process by which all parental rights and responsibilties are permanently transferred to the adoptive parents by the court. The child becomes part of the adoptive family as if they had been born into it and the child usually takes the family's surname.
Fostering means sharing the care of someone else's child or children with the Local Authority and/or the birth parents. Most often the child returns home or moves on to independence. Foster carers never aquire parental responsibility for the children they foster.
Fostering children is therefore the choice for most people who wish to have a part or full time career working from home and wanting to care for an open ended number of children throughout their time as foster carers.
Simply Fostering has members who are both Fostering and Adoption Agencies therefore if you are interested in adoption and would like us to contact the Agencies on your behalf or for further information, please mention 'Adoption' in the contact/registration form.
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