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165:, the father sends with his child a certain number of cows, to which the same number is added by the fosterer. The father appropriates a proportionable extent of ground, without rent, for their pasturage. If every cow brings a calf, half belongs to the fosterer, and half to the child; but if there be only one calf between two cows, it is the child's, and when the child returns to the parent, it is accompanied by all the cows given, both by the father and by the fosterer, with half of the increase of the stock by propagation. These beasts are considered as a portion, and called Macalive cattle, of which the father has the produce, but is supposed not to have the full property, but to owe the same number to the child, as a portion to the daughter, or a stock for the son. 44: 528: 1671: 186:. Original family ties and rights of inheritance were not affected, nor was it required for the fostered child to be an orphan or for the biological father to be deceased. Moreover, the fostering of another man's child was regarded as a source of honor to the birth father; and conventionally the fostering party was of inferior social status to the biological father. An exception to this convention is found in 1695: 1683: 173:
Dalt, however, at his return, brought back a considerable number of Macalive cattle, and of the friendship so formed there have been good effects. When Macdonald raised his rents, Macsweyn was, like other tenants, discontented, and, resigning his farm, removed from Sky to Col, and was established at Grissipol.
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Fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms. Our friend, the young Laird of Col, was fostered by Macsweyn of Grissipol. Macsweyn then lived a tenant to Sir James Macdonald in the Isle of Sky; and therefore Col, whether he sent him cattle or not, could grant him no land. The
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Children continue with the fosterer perhaps six years, and cannot, where this is the practice, be considered as burdensome. The fosterer, if he gives four cows, receives likewise four, and has, while the child continues with him, grass for eight without rent, with half the calves, and all the milk,
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In medieval Highland society there was a system of fosterage among clan leaders, where boys and girls would leave their parents' house to be brought up in that of other chiefs, creating a fictive bond of kinship that helped cement alliances and mutual bonds of obligation.
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This article is about the (sometimes historical) social practice of children being raised by families not their own. For the modern child welfare system of placing children in state custody in the homes of temporary caregivers, see
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and the Hebrides were ruled for long periods of time by Norse invaders during the Middle Ages; but it is unknown which culture was the original source of the custom of fosterage.
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taught children either for payment or for no compensation. Children were taught a particular trade and treated like family; their original family ties were often severed.
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can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of
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Parkes, Peter. "Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Hindu Kush. Milk Kinship Allegiance in Former Mountain Kingdoms of Northern Pakistan."
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Parkes, Peter. "Milk Kinship in Southeast Europe. Alternative Social Structures and Foster Relations in the Caucasus and the Balkans."
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in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies
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Smith, Llinos Beverley. "Fosterage, adoption and God-parenthood. Ritual and fictive kinship in medieval Wales."
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Parkes, Peter. "Fostering Fealty. A Comparative Analysis of Tributary Allegiances of Adoptive Kinship."
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for which he pays only four cows when he dismisses his Dalt, for that is the name for a foster child.
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Fitzsimons, Fiona. "Fosterage and Gossiprid in late medieval Ireland. Some new evidence." In
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Parkes, Peter. "Celtic Fosterage: Adoptive Kinship and Clientage in Northwest Europe."
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McAll, C. "The normal paradigms of a woman's life in the Irish and Welsh texts." In
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Parkes, Peter. "Fosterage, Kinship, and Legend: When Milk was Thicker than Blood?"
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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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Ní Chonaill, Bronagh. "Fosterage. Child-rearing in medieval Ireland."
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Fosterage or "fostering" is frequently referred to in the medieval
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This practice was once common in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.
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Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-c.1650. Land, lordship and settlement
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Declaration on the elimination of violence against women
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described the fosterage custom as he saw it practised.
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