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
Two children who disappeared from their foster home in the early hours of Thursday morning have been found, the Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2025
The stigma stayed with PJ his whole life, even after finding a loving foster home and, in later years, tracking down his birth mother, who was separated from him when he was a one-year-old.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
She fantasizes that the next place she goes—because there’s always a next place, another foster home, a new school—she’ll start over with a new, easier-to-maintain look.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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