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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

An attorney for Herman Law said in a court filing the client believed she’d been in a foster home there, and the lack of records didn’t conclusively establish anything.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 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 rested in an incubator in the shelter’s ICU until staffers found a foster home where she could recover.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

I ended up in the foster home years after them.I give myself some distance, as if privacy actually matters, and make sure I stay out of the light coming from the exit sign.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera



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