foster home


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fos′ter home′


n.
a household in which a child is given parental care by someone other than its birth parent or adoptive parent.
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Noun1.foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
family, household, menage, home, house - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
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Oregon's Department of Human Services (DHS) was sued for allegedly placing two minor girls in a foster home with a sexually abusive teen, which laid the ground for their physical and mental trauma.
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The sense of abandonment set in as she moved from foster home to foster home, each unable to manage her behaviors and each sending her back to DHS.
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Tia has a lot of love to give someone and we'd love to get her into a foster home with a view to finding her a permanent adoption one day in the future."
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Social services put me in a foster home when I was eight years old.
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