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Definition of Foster home
1. Noun. A household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foster Home
Literary usage of Foster home
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jews of Philadelphia: Their History from the Earliest Settlements to the by Henry S. Morais (1894)
"JEWISH foster home. THE causes which led to the formation of a Home for Jewish
Orphans in February-May, 1855, are well defined in the following extract from ..."
2. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"The foster home. The problem of the dependent and neglected child often becomes
the question of the re-formation of family and home ties. ..."
3. Child Problems by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"THE foster home. The value of the home tie can not be too strongly emphasized.
Its severance may work untold hardships when a slightly different form of aid ..."
4. Child-Placing in Families: A Manual for Students and Social Workers by William Henry Slingerland (1918)
"... Aid Society 'AGE Brother and Sister in a foster home Frontispiece Boarded-out
Because Her Mother is III job Typical Boarding Home in the Country 5ob New ..."
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