A residential institution providing care and guardianship for children whose parents are dead or unable to look after them.
she lived in foster homes until she became an adult
Example sentencesExamples
- After his father abandoned the family, he and his siblings spent time in foster homes before reuniting with their mother.
- Most of his early childhood was spent in foster homes on the east side of Montreal.
- Having gone through a succession of foster homes and schools by the age of 10, he was committed to a therapeutic unit.
- She was placed in a foster home, but she ran away just before she left for college.
- He was raised in a foster home in Spain after his parents' marriage broke up.
- He grew up in foster homes and a Catholic orphanage.
- He jumped from foster home to foster home as a youth.
- Even at the age of two, for a child to leave their mother to go to a foster home could potentially be quite damaging.
- She requested that the children be moved to a different foster home.
- Dreyer was raised in a succession of foster homes until he was adopted.