foster home
Example Sentences
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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
Joanna Napoletano and Darlene Sindle had lived with the Galston triplets in a local foster home, and were known to run with a rowdy crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
If she hadn’t been bounced from one foster home to the next, she wouldn’t have ended up on this island—and met Jack, and through him, Vivian.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
