foster mother

foster parent

Mothers Action Group

Medical or nursing care or supervision of healthy infant under circumstances such as:adverse socioeconomic conditions at home | awaiting foster or adoptive placement | maternal illness | number of children at home preventing or interfering with normal care

ultimate parent undertaking

Participation of mothers in the work-force depends in part on affordable, quality child-care and while there has been increased provision, supply remains far less than demand.

[10] Children separated are separated from both their parents (father and mother) or from their previous legal or customary primary care-giver; they are not necessarily separated from other members of their family (Main inter-agency principles on children separated from their family or unaccompanied, page 13).

The following groups of people are defined as homeless in the Finnish Plan: persons sleeping out of doors or in temporary shelters; persons using lodging houses etc. because they have no home of their own; persons in various forms of institutional accommodation because they have no home of their own; released prisoners who do not have a home; persons living temporarily with friends or relations because of the lack of a home; families living separately or in temporary accommodation because they do not have a home; homeless mothers living in a home for unmarried mothers; and unmarried couples that are about to have a child and do no ...[+++]t have a joint home.

Welcomes the initiatives of the Turkish government such as the Social Risk Mitigation Project (conditional cash transfer), which involves paying families in need a sum of money for each child attending primary school; notes that the amount given to families for girls is higher than that given to boys, and that this amount is handed to the mothers; welcomes the fact that in this way the issues of schooling of girls and empowerment of women within the family structure are addressed simultaneously; notes, however, that dropping out of school is still a concern, especially among seasonal workers' families and Roma children, and calls on t ...[+++]he Turkish government to support and make full use of the early warning system for children at risk of dropping out, and to eliminate regional disparities in primary and secondary education;