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foster home

[faw-ster hohm, fos-ter] / ˈfɔ stər ˈhoʊm, ˈfɒs tər /
NOUN
household caring for orphaned or troubled child
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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

"I realised I didn't want the fame or the riches. I wanted to be a mum and a wife. Being a kid from foster home, that was all I actually craved."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

I grew up in a foster home in the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Paige has now been placed in a foster home.

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be “repatriated”—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah


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