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Child Welfare Terms, English to Spanish

Child Welfare Terms:

In the interest of better serving the needs of Spanish-speaking families and professionals who work with them, Child Welfare Information Gateway developed this glossary to ensure consistency and cultural relevance in our publications. By making this document available to others, we hope to support other organizations that are also striving to improve their communications and to promote, where possible, consistency throughout the child welfare field. (read more...)

Child Welfare Terms, English to Spanish (PDF - 277 KB)

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English Child Welfare Term
Corresponding Spanish Term
(primary term in bold)

parent education

educación para los padres
entrenamiento para padres

parenting

cuidado de los padres
crianza de los hijos
puericultura

parenting skills

aptitudes de los padres
habilidades como padres de familia
aptitudes para ser padre o madre

paternity

paternidad

permanency permanencia
permanency hearing audiencia de permanencia
permanency planning planificación de permanencia

perpetrator

autor de un delito
perpetrador

person searching for birth relatives

persona que busca a sus parientes consanguineous

petition to adopt

petición para adoptar
solicitud de adopción

photolisting galería fotográfica de menores que pueden ser adoptados
sección de fotografías de menores que pueden ser adoptados
physical disability incapacidad física
incapacitado
discapacitado

place for adoption

colocar en adopción
dar en adopción

placement

asignación
colocación

postadoption contact agreement acuerdo de comunicación post-adoptivo
...después de la adopción
prevention

prevención
intervención temprana

prevention and family support services servicios preventivos y de apoyo familiar
probate records registros de autenticación
program programa
prospective adoptive parents posibles padres adoptivos
padres adoptivos potenciales
protective factor factor de protección
public child welfare agency agencia pública del bienestar de menores

putative (presumed) father

padre putativo

putative (presumed) father registry

registro de padres putativos

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