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What does " treatment foster care is heavily relied on in practice for treating severely disruptive children" mean?
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What does " treatment foster care is heavily relied on in practice for treating severely disruptive children" mean?
Thanks in advance
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These children (with extremely bad behavior that disturbs the harmony of their family) are very often put in foster care. This helps them to improve their behavior.
- These children (with extremely bad behavior that disturbs the harmony of their family) are very often put in foster care.
- This helps them to improve their behavior.
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These children (with extremely bad behavior that disturbs the harmony of their family) are very often put in foster care. This helps them to improve their behavior. .
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I mean I haven't seen the pattern 'rely on in/for'.Does it have any special meaning?I cannot distangle this sentence' structure otherwise.
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It means that parents who can't handle their own children put them into an orphanage so that they don't have to bother raising their children.
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" treatment foster care is heavily relied on in practice for treating severely disruptive children" mean?
The sentence is rather academic. it is passive voice with no agent. Sentences are much clearer in active voice, but
to change it to active voice requires an agent, so I will invent one:
In practice, psychologists (the agent) rely heavily on treatment (in) foster
The sentence is rather academic. it is passive voice with no agent. Sentences are much clearer in active voice, but
to change it to active voice requires an agent, so I will invent one:
In practice, psychologists (the agent) rely heavily on treatment (in) foster
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