foster child
a child raised by someone who is not their biological or adoptive parent.
a needy child, such as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.
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It meant her foster children could avoid some awkward conversations.
A school district opted out of a free meals program, saying students could ‘become spoiled’ | María Paúl | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostAbout 3% of same-sex couples are raising a foster child and more than 21% are raising an adopted child, making them seven times more likely than different-sex couples to be raising an adopted child.
The Most Powerful Court in the U.S. is About to Decide the Fate of the Most Vulnerable Children | Belinda Luscombe | May 28, 2021 | TimeGroup home providers serving foster children were required to obtain short-term residential therapeutic program licenses under the new state law.
San Pasqual Academy Is Still Fighting for Its Life | Kayla Jimenez | May 10, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoAllie is an abused foster child in the southern US who specializes, when her power comes, in control.
How Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power deconstructs the patriarchy | Constance Grady | March 12, 2021 | VoxShe’d anticipated that any foster child she had would be in school, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck.
What Happens After a Debt Collection Machine Grinds to a Halt | by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | October 2, 2020 | ProPublica
Clusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time.
Laniakea: The Milky Way’s Place in the Heavens | Matthew R. Francis | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The BND is a foster child of the USA,” historian Josef Foschepoth told the popular German news program Tagesschau.
The CIA’s Bumbling German Spy Was More Austin Powers and Less James Bond | Christopher Dickey, Nadette De Visser | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“It takes a very special kind of person, and nerve, to take on a foster child,” he says.
He will never again have to live with the Barahonas, who took him in as a foster child in 2004 and adopted him in 2009.
Florida Child Abuse Scandal: The Victim's New Life | Jacqui Goddard | February 24, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanShe will thee bereave of almost every joy, the fair-faced foster-child of Heimir.
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre SturlesonVillain as he was, and stained with the blood of her foster-child, her heart warmed toward him—the mother was the mother still!
The adopted country of each of these Italians gave more or less of its own impress to its foster child.
Kiev was at that time the foster-child of Constantinople and the Eastern empire.
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 | John Lloyd Stephens
British Dictionary definitions for foster child
a child looked after temporarily or brought up by people other than its natural or adoptive parents
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