What is the difference between adoption and fostering?
Adoption means taking a child into your home permanently and legally as part of your family. Fostering usually means offering a temporary home to children until they either return to the family home or move on to live with a relative, adopter or long-term foster carer. There are many similarities between adoption and long-term fostering. In both cases you will look after a child as if he or she is your own son or daughter. The differences are mainly to do with the legal status of the child.
