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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

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

One of Chris’s brothers spent time in a foster home.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell



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