NOUN
- a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
How To Use foster home In A Sentence
- foster home
- The soft pitter-patter of bare feet announced the arrival of the other two children in Nana's snug little foster home, nine-year-old Katriel and fourteen-year-old Nante.
- The 11-year-old with the imaginary friends threatens to kill authority figures, fights other children and behaves so badly that, since being safe havened, he has twice been removed from specialized foster homes because even trained foster parents can't handle him. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
- The youngster grew up in a series of foster homes and boarding schools. The Sun
- As the wheels of the grant system grind so slowly this tradition of kindness breaks down in some foster homes who demand that their charges bring in an income.
- The youngster grew up in a series of foster homes and boarding schools. The Sun
- She was unable to hold on to Jonathan, who began his career in foster homes at the age of 4 and would eventually go on his own tour of mental hospitals, thanks to some PCP-laced reefers and his grandparents' willingness to sign forms.
- Discovered in a dustbin, weepy April Showers grows up in foster homes.
- Through this work, forty children have been placed in adoptive and foster homes.
- The local authority exercises parental rights over the children until foster homes are found.
