Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of fostering; nurturance or promotion.
- noun The act or custom of placing a child with a foster parent or parents, especially when practiced as a traditional childrearing method in certain societies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of fostering, nursing:, or nourishing; specifically, the rearing of another's child as one's own, in the relation of foster-parent and foster-child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act of
fostering another's child as if it were your own. - noun A condition of being the
foster child . - noun
Promoting orencouragement given by act or word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- noun encouragement; aiding the development of something
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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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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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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They could be unfit without assistance, they may just need help with custody, guidance, fosterage, counseling, finances, or POA.
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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.
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They could be unfit without assistance, they may just need help with custody, guidance, fosterage, counseling, finances, or POA.
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He is my overlord, and he has overwatched me in the fosterage where he placed me when my father died.
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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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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.
treeseed commented on the word fosterage
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1614
1 : the act of fostering
2 : a custom once prevalent in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland of entrusting one's child to foster parents to be brought up
February 14, 2008