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Child Care Working: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care working's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care working 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 working-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care working's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care working 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 workingren's needs.
In the United States, child care working welfare services are offered under a variety of governmental and voluntary auspices, whether or not there is a concurrent need for financial assistance. One of the most descriptive and comprehensive definitions found in the Social Security Act as amended in 1962 states that "child care working welfare services means public social services which supplement, or substitute for parental care and supervision for the purpose of (1) preventing or remedying, or assisting in the solution of problems which may result in the neglect, abuse, exploitation, or delinquency of child care workingren, (2) protecting and caring for homeless, dependent, or neglected child care workingren, (3) protecting and promoting the welfare of child care workingren of working mothers, and (4) otherwise protecting and promoting the welfare of child care workingren, including the strengthening of their own homes where possible or, where needed, the provision of adequate care of child care workingren away from their homes in foster family homes or day care or other child care working care facilities."
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care working welfare service. Of the total number of child care workingren receiving child care working 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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