Institutional upbringing

Definition

Group foster care in which parenting responsibilities are largely taken over by some form of institution (such as residential nursery, orphanage, or children's home), or therapeutic care over a prolonged period in which the child is in a hospital, convalescent home or the like, without at least one parent living with the child.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Problems associated with upbringing

• QE90Inadequate parental supervision or control
• QE91Parental overprotection
• QE92Altered pattern of family relationships in childhood
• QE93Removal from home in childhood
• QE95Inappropriate parental pressure or other abnormal qualities of upbringing
• QE96Events resulting in loss of self-esteem in childhood
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified