Fosterhome

For children of 7-14 years of age, life in family-group homes with house parents offers many possibilities but one should consider seriously whether fosterhome care is not indicated for a large group of these children. Fosterhome care should also be applied to juvenile delinquents (in co-operation with child guidance clinics).

She also discusses the desirability of a "mother house," a fosterhome placement with an analyzed motherly person. If fosterhome placement is combined with analytic treatment, work, and recreation, results may be positive.

Under the probate code a probate judge is clothed with the authority to place a minor, that is any child who has not attained his seventeenth birthday, in a private fosterhome.

Jerry, age two, has been living in the same fosterhome for fourteen months.