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S: UNICEF – http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/education-indicators-technical-guidelines-en_0.pdf (last access: 10 June 2020); CHILDWEL – https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/outofhome/group-residential-care/ (last access: 10 June 2020).
N: 1. – group (n): From 1690s, originally an art criticism term, “assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design,” from French groupe“cluster, group” (17c.), from Italian gruppo, from Spanish grupo, etc.
Also “any assemblage, a number of individuals related in some way” around 1736.
– home (n): From Old English ham “dwelling place, house, abode, fixed residence; estate; village; region, country,” from Proto-Germanic haimaz “home” (source also of Old Frisian hem “home, village,” Old Norse heimr “residence, world,”…
‘Home’ in the full range and feeling of “Modern English” is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word “home”.
2. First known use of “group home”: 1967. A residence for persons requiring care or supervision.
3. Collins Dictionary also provides a definition more linked to American English:
A substitutive home, usually located in a residential neighborhood, providing foster care for orphans, young offenders, or people with disabilities or special needs.
4. Applied specifically to children: residential child care center, residential care, residential child care facility.
S: 1. OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=group+home (last access: 11 June 2020). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/group%20home (last access: 10 June 2020). 3. COLLINS – https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles/group-home (last access: 10 June 2020). 4. UNICEF – https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/children-alternative-care/ (last access: 16 May 2021); NCDHHS – https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/social-services/child-welfare-services/licensing/residential-child-care-facility (last access: 16 May 2021).
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