foster care
77
2.6
- noun
- /ˈfɔstər kɛr/
:
acogida
- After being removed from a difficult home environment, she was placed in foster care until a suitable adoptive family could be found.
- adoption and foster care
- foster care placement
- children in foster care
You have heard me say time and time again, the foster care system is broken.
- You have heard me say time and time again, the foster care system is broken.
- I was placed with him actually through foster care in California.
- We know that outcomes for kids that stay in foster care too long are are bad.
- They are then put out into, there's essentially a foster care system that has been set up.
- And she's about to go into foster care because her mom's going to go into rehab.
- And then yeah, like obviously my my siblings went to foster care when she went jail.
- They they put him in the foster care system.
- So when Ada and I remarried, her children from that time were in foster care with other other people.
- And so some police arrived and placed me into foster care.
- Child welfare authorities took Tarji away from Fryer and put her in foster care.
- And I'm going to try and bring back that feeling I had for kids who have been given up on in foster care and in Group homes.
- I could contact CPS so the school could contact CPCPS and I would end up in the foster care system, Child Protective Services.
- So court, a lot of shit had gone on in between like we went to foster care again and learning to live again.
- I worked with kids who are in foster care, and I've also worked in a lot of medical and health settings too.
- And and then later on the you know, the, which we call it the the the people took US into a foster care.
- These mainly are kids who have kind of aged out of the foster care system or their kids who are maybe LGBTQ that have been kicked out of their homes for being who they are.
- It's not like I think foster care has some bad terms.
- So they always stay in a in the foster care.
Examples
-
He'd been bounced around the foster care system for eight years before landing in my arms.
Fiction book (1994) -
At first, parents of children in foster care are angry, and they are afraid.
Fiction book (1994) -
I was placed with him actually through foster care in California.
-
The kid's been in and out of foster care her whole life.
-
I was taken away, put in foster care for a couple of months.
Fiction book (1995) -
After years in the foster care system, sixteen-year-old Charlotte has found a permanent family.
Fiction book (1994) -
The organization that I founded has helped 305 children come from foster care back with their moms.
-
And she's about to go into foster care because her mom's going to go into rehab.
-
I'd hate to see Zoe end up in foster care after all she's been through.
-
The largest group of children in foster care is between the ages of 6-15 (27%).
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
68
2.6
A home where a child lives when their parents cannot care for them
14
3.5
A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
1
7.2
To bring up a child who is not your own to become part of a family
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound directly combines 'foster' (to raise or care for someone not biologically yours, often temporarily) with 'care' (supervision or provision of needs), so the sense of temporary supervised placement to look after and prepare an individual or animal is predictable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English noun formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Foster care comes from the simple image of a family taking a child into their home to raise and protect them; foster means to look after someone who is not your own and care means to give help. That's why foster care means 'supervised care for children when their parents cannot look after them'.