fosterage
IPA: fˈɑstɝɪdʒ
noun
- The act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.
- The act of caring for another human being or animal.
- The condition of being the foster child.
- The act of promoting or encouraging something.
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Examples of "fosterage" in Sentences
- He is my overlord, and he has overwatched me in the fosterage where he placed me when my father died.
- They could be unfit without assistance, they may just need help with custody, guidance, fosterage, counseling, finances, or POA.
- His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.
- Prior to the change, parental rights were left intact while children were in fosterage, and the state social workers assisted parents with the view of regaining custody.
- Prior to the change, parental rights were left intact while children were in fosterage, and the state (social workers) assisted parents with the view of regaining custody.
- Because fosterage, pretty much by definition, involves bringing in strangers I would think the level of state control would in fact be closer to the institutional side of that divide than the program I experienced.
- Soronel Haetir: Because fosterage, pretty much by definition, involves bringing in strangers I would think the level of state control would in fact be closer to the institutional side of that divide than the program I experienced.
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