foster family
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffosterandfamily
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foster
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈfɒs.tər/us/ˈfɑː.stɚ/
used to refer to someone or something connected with the care of children, usually for a limited time, by someone who is not the child's ...
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family
noun
uk/ˈfæm.əl.i/us/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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(Definition offosterandfamilyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffoster family
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The reason for changing thefosterfamilywas simple: the child was not cared for properly.
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After moving to the secondfosterfamily, the child stayed in the new family till 1997.
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Although the child had been placed with afosterfamily, the investigation of her birth parents was continuing.
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Their foster care group, however, was unusual in that the children lived in only onefosterfamilyfor their entire early history.
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Between their 9th and 11th weeks in custody, after residing with afosterfamilyfor 1 month, children were again individually interviewed.
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Inadequate early caregiving environments can increase the risk for poor outcomes, and more supportivefosterfamilyenvironments have the potential to mitigate some of these risks.
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The documentary highlighted a case of afosterfamilywho have twice had a young woman abducted from their home.
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I was saying that our aim should be tofosterfamilyholiday centres.
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She may not be legally homeless, but she has no home in the sense that we want tofosterfamilylife.
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Instead of helping the family, the children are taken away to afosterfamilyor taken into care.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
A child who feels permanently part of afosterfamilycan and will do as well as a child who is adopted.
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We meet the parent whose child has been taken away, or the grandparents seeking access to the child who has been placed in temporary care or with afosterfamily.
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Fosterfamilyorganisations could be involved in drafting proposals for the legal measures which are really needed in this area.
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That is certainly true for many older children; many teenagers have experienced a traumatic family life, when either their own or afosterfamilycould not cope with them.
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A child should be within the love and care of a family and, if not in its own natural family, in a suitable loving and caringfosterfamily.
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Older and with those powers on full display, he suddenly found himself rejected by hisfosterfamily, branded a witch-child.
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The thing about having afosterfamilyas the main characters is that they do have trauma in their lives.
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The samefosterfamilypreviously took in their care hundreds of other children over nearly four decades.
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