foster
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4.0
- adjective
- /ˈfɔstər/
:
de acogida
- Many children in the system rely on the kindness of foster families for a stable upbringing.
- foster parents
- foster care
- a foster family
And we go to her foster dad's house.
- And we go to her foster dad's house.
- OK, So Eunice Spry, your foster Mama, as far as you're concerned, she's your mum.
- Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers.
- They they put him in the foster care system.
- We'll, we'll give them foster homes with the known abusers.
- They are then put out into, there's essentially a foster care system that has been set up.
- I want to say I married pastor, the Pastor Carlson, my foster father, who's now passed away.
- So they always stay in a in the foster care.
- Her mission is to advocate for and overhaul our nation's foster care system.
- But that child now lives in Australia long ago moved with foster parents.
- He said look, oh, that's for you, send one to your mum and one to like come on, my mum, Sharon, my wife, foster mum and send one to your real mum or dad.
- And going back to that, that that character, the the thing, his foster sister, she represents like total freedom.
Examples
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The child was placed in a foster home where she received caring support.
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Her mission is to advocate for and overhaul our nation's foster care system.
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And I got to meet the foster family and they were such an incredible couple.
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Yeah, but I was a foster kid first.
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I remember you just had a foster son.
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Where are your foster parents?
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Are your foster parents still mad at you, for getting in trouble so much?
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So I grew up in Cairns with my foster family.
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Wally grew up in foster care, and his foster family attended a Baptist church.
Academic text (2007) -
I lived in this foster home for six months when my foster parents petitioned the courts of Nebraska for custody.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
23
7.2
Acting like a parent for a child when not their parent
Antonyms
Compounds
42
3.2
A person who cares for a child instead of the child's parents without adopting them
14
3.5
A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
1
3.5
A person who cares for a child temporarily in their home but is not the child's legal or birth parent
1
3.3
A girl or young woman who lives with people who are not her birth parents and is not adopted
1
3.5
A girl or woman not related by birth who your parents raise as part of the family
Surface Forms
Etymology
Foster as an adjective comes from the same old word fost 'to nourish', so a 'foster' family or home is one that gives care and a safe place to a child who is not their own.