foster care

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foster care noun

A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted

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fostercare foster home foster child fosterhood foster parent fosterage foster sibling foster father foster foster family foster mother fostership fosterling fostermother fosterer adoptive sibling

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