foster home

English

Alternative forms

foster-home, fosterhome

Etymology

From foster +‎ home.

Noun

foster home (plural foster homes)

1. A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.
   • 2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales:

     The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.

   • 2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement:

     Pete's foster home placements were never successful.

   • 2014, Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March:

     For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard.

Translations

non-adoptive household caring for child

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄養家庭／寄养家庭 (jìyǎng jiātíng)

• Finnish: sijaiskoti (fi)
• Hungarian: befogadó család, nevelőcsalád
• Indonesian: keluarga asuh
• Irish: baile altrama m, áras altrama m
• Spanish: casa de acogida f
• Swedish: familjehem (sv) n, fosterhem (sv) n

See also

• foster care
• foster child
• foster family
• foster father
• foster mother
• foster parent