FOSTER-CARE DRIFT
foster-care drift.The phenomenon that occurs when children placed in foster care remain in
that system, in legal limbo, for too many years of their developmental life before they are reunited
with their parents or freed for adoption and placed in permanent homes. • The Adoption and Safe
Families Act was passed in 1997 to help rectify this problem. See ADOPTION AND SAFE
FAMILIES ACT .[Blacks Law 8th]