NOUN
- supervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home
How To Use foster care In A Sentence
- Andrew Bridge is on a mission: To fix the foster care system that he barely survived.
- The literary equivalent of a chick flick, Oleander details one girl's attempts to come to terms with her mother while also surviving the cold and largely indifferent world of foster care.
- The children were waiting for placement in a foster care home.
- He had been in foster care since he was five.
- A fundamental problem, in the view of many child-welfare advocates, is the federal funding system — which in effect is a disincentive for states to reduce their foster care populations.
- This age range is the hardest to find carers for as most people choose to provide foster care for babies and young children.
- Their foster carers appeared incapable of exercising any control over them. Times, Sunday Times
- They thought that foster care would lead to adoption. Times, Sunday Times
- They never put us in foster care.
- Hospital documents had begun showing recommendations that Jackie be placed in foster care as early as 1973.
