title: Growing up in foster care.
abstract: A survey of a small sample of adults who grew up in long-term foster care under the supervision of an agency that provided supportive counseling shows that the experience of "impermanence" did not impair their abilities to lead independent, outwardly satisfactory lives but left them at risk of an impaired self-image from the deeply felt stigma of foster care, a difficulty in establishing emotional intimacy, and an unresolved sense of loss.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002657:Child Development; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept