Topic of the Month November: Addition to the Family - Adoption and Fostering of Disabled Children

 
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If a child cannot live with its family, it does not automatically have to end up in a children’s home: foster families or an adoption are good alternatives. But what happens if the child has a disability? Who cares for it? Who cares about the organisation? All this and more you will learn in our Topic of the Month November: Addition to the Family - Adoption and Fostering of Disabled Children.

Adopting a child is an important step. If the child is ill or disabled it is an even bigger one. Nevertheless, there are people who made such a decision in their lives – as well as Sabine and Lutz Lehmann.
- The Smile which Changed their Lives

They give security, warmth and love. Foster parents for children with disabilities are barely different from biological parents. But how do the families get together? An allocation agency in Germany helps to give the chronically ill and disabled children in loving hands.
- Foster Parents of Children with Disabilities: “They Have no Fears of Contacts and Know What to Expect”

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