NOUN
- a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
How To Use foster parent In A Sentence
- As a child, he had lived with a succession of foster parents.
- He had spent approximately three years (on and off) in care or with foster parents.
- In 1988 the foster parents gave notice of their application to adopt the child.
- His new foster parents, the Smiths, are loving and kind, and he has been reunited with his youngest brother, whom the Smiths have raised since babyhood.
- He was taken into care before being placed with foster parents.
- You have still suggested that, as a Norse Neopagan, I should be prevented from being a foster parent (I would note that I am also an advocate of reviving animal sacrifice within Norse neopaganism). The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home
- Once the chicks emerge, they throw out the unhatched eggs and are adopted by their unwitting foster parents. The Sun
- And they cleared all background checks. But just before the foster parent situation could be finalized, Lutheran Child Family Services balked.
- The children were placed with foster parents.
- Foster parents were as likely as their wards to find a justifiable cause for bellyache.
