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  1. foster homenoun

    a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)

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  1. foster home

    A foster home is a temporary living arrangement provided by state-certified caregivers, referred to as foster parents, for children who have been removed from their birth parents or caretakers due to neglect, abuse, or other challenging circumstances. This setting aims to offer safety, support, and nurturance while agencies work toward the children's return to their birth family or advance towards a legal adoption.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of foster home in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of foster home in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of foster home in a Sentence

  1. Julie Castle:

    About 40 % of all of the shelter population in the country is in foster home right now, and that represents a current reality of about 60 to 90,000 animals, which is huge.

  2. De Alba:

    There was a sort of beauty about him, i didn't want him to be seen as this poor child who had been from foster home to foster home and rescued from the street. I didn't want him to define himself that way, nor others. I wanted to show him in this beautiful light that would change his own perspective when the time came.

  3. Karen Thompson:

    They didn’t want to go home, back to the other foster home.


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