foster home
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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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