foster home

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or…

   A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.

   • The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.
   • Pete's foster home placements were never successful.
   • For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard.

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