Definition: When an adoption fails or ends before being legal and final in court. The child is then placed back into foster care or in another adoptive home. Disruptions also occur in foster families. When the foster family can not continue to care for the foster child until family reunification the child is then placed into another foster family.
Disruption
By Carrie Craft, About.com Guide
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