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]