Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foster-father or foster-mother.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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Examples
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Rejecting a foster-parent application on the basis that an individual refuses to allow certain types of foods to be prepared in his/her own kitchen seems problematic UNLESS there is reason to be concerned about adequate nutrition.
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First of all, denying foster-parent status to Amish families is meaningless.
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Rejecting a foster-parent application on the basis that an individual refuses to allow certain types of foods to be prepared in his/her own kitchen seems problematic UNLESS there is reason to be concerned about adequate nutrition.
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First of all, denying foster-parent status to Amish families is meaningless.
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Or those families that you always see in the back pages of People magazine who foster-parent twenty special needs kids and somehow manage to shape them into a family.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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Book-crossing involves leaving books in public places - heartlessly orphaning them - in the hope that a sympathetic foster-parent will pick them up, read them, then pass them on in the same way.
Free at the point of use Stroppy Author 2009
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Book-crossing involves leaving books in public places - heartlessly orphaning them - in the hope that a sympathetic foster-parent will pick them up, read them, then pass them on in the same way.
Archive 2009-07-01 Stroppy Author 2009
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George and Lizabeth, both Mormons, started formal foster-parent training, and George began weekend visits.
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Washington state officials know that too many kids see too many homes, that foster-parent turnover — 30% last year — is too high and that parents want a greater role, says Kathleen Spears, a Social and Health Services spokeswoman.
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Now gay couples are unable to adopt or foster-parent children.
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