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Child Care Direct: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care direct's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care direct welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care direct-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care direct's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care direct receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care directren's needs.
Both Linton (55, 956) and Riesman and associates (80, 1950) have described the relationship between child care direct-rearing practices and the personality patterns which the child care direct evolves as he grows up. Differences in people's personality, according to Linton, are due "less to their genes than to their nurseries." Several considerations suggest caution in accepting this emphasis on the direct relation between the child care direct's personality development and the parents' attitudes toward the child care direct, the amount of mothering that he receives, and other specific child care direct-care practices:
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care direct welfare service. Of the total number of child care directren receiving child care direct welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute care programs include foster family care, institutional care, and adoption.
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