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Foster parent

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foster fathernounA male adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
foster mothernounA female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.
fosternoun(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
foster childnounA child in foster care; a child in one's foster care, in relation to oneself.
fosterernounOne who fosters; one who is designated to care for and nurture someone.
fostermothernounAlternative form of foster mother. [A female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.]
fosterlingnouna foster child
foster homenounA 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.
fostershipnounThe relationship between foster parent and foster child.
fosterhoodnounThe state of being a foster child.
foster familynounA family having at least one foster child.
fostercarenounAlternative form of foster care. [A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted.]
foster carenounA formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted.
foster siblingnounA fellow foster child of one's foster parent, not otherwise related to oneself.
fosteragenounThe act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.
fosteressnoun(archaic) A female fosterer.
fostressnouna female fosterer
foster brothernounA male foster sibling.
foster sisternounA female foster sibling.
surrogate parentnounA person who takes care of a child when the normal parents are unavailable.

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