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"Mr President, in connection with our recent debate on international adoption, I should like to draw attention to the institution of the foster family. It is an alternative to residential care for children awaiting adoption or the resolution of problems in their natural families. Foster families are an effective and desirable form of caring for children and are a particular opportunity for socially maladjusted children, whose chances of adoption are the lowest.
We should encourage the Member States to make changes to legislation which will improve traditional forms of care in foster families as well as care in foster families with many children or with specialist carers, and also ensure that appropriate financial support is made available. Foster family organisations could be involved in drafting proposals for the legal measures which are really needed in this area. Foster parents need, in addition, the establishment of groups made up of parents, carers, guardians and social workers, which would work together effectively and whose objective would be to give mutual help and support for parenting. Of no less importance is general promotion of the idea of foster families in society, so that there will be more of them and that they will enjoy respect and recognition, and that their huge contribution to caring for children will be appreciated."@en1
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