foster-father

• “He was a sort of foster-father to the youth who startled the literary world with his brilliant and forceful prose, just as he amazed his associates by his freedom of thought and capacity for living.”

  Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon

• “The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife.”

  The Huffington Post: Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years

• “The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people.”

  The Huffington Post: Sri Lanka Child Assumed Dead In 2004 Tsunami Is Found After Six Years

• “Coached by my ambitious foster-father, I had a considerable array of compelling arguments at my disposal.”

  Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

• “And then he sat on the bed and we had a nice little chat, uncle and nephew, foster-father to foster-son.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “It is eminently fitting that St. Joseph, a working man who became the foster-father of Christ and patron of the universal Church, should be honored on this day.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Wikipedia describes him - in perhaps the most untheologically PC way imaginable - as the ‘foster-father’ of Jesus.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “He was heart-sick over the change that had come to the beloved features of his foster-father.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “Today begins the nine-days of intensive prayer to Saint Joseph, the foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

  Novena to St. Joseph

• “From the foster care child routinely stripped naked, beaten and hung upside down in a closet for not performing oral sex well enough on his foster-father, to the independently wealthy child left to be sexually abused by others and physically and emotionally abused by her parents at home, the ability to parent isn't something that's inherent in parenting.”

  Joyce McFadden: Palin: One Woman Forward, All Women Back

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