ABSTRACT
Placing children and young persons in residential care and foster care is ranking high on the political agenda and is also increasingly influenced through cultural and socioeconomic processes. New developments, phenomena and events challenge old images and opinions about what is the optimal care for these citizens. These processes show differences between continents, countries and even regions within countries. Residential and foster care for children and young persons has consequences for childcare in general. Certainly for those children who, as a result of moving out of their family home, against their own will or voluntary, to temporarily or permanently placements often due to lack of proper care.
