http://www.proudparenting.com/node/264 Comments for "Foster care and mental health. Foster care placement has implications for healthy emotional development." en http://www.proudparenting.com/node/264 <p>Young children are more likely than older children to be placed in foster care and they spend a larger proportion of their life in the foster care system. As a matter of fact, young children are in foster care longer than older children and infants are in foster care significantly longer than other age groups. In a recent study of five states, the median length of time infants spent in foster care ranged from 11 to 42 months.</p> <p><a href="http://www.proudparenting.com/node/264">read more</a></p> http://www.proudparenting.com/node/264#comments Foster Care mental health Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:39:42 -0700 Community Editor 264 at http://www.proudparenting.com