foster home
Example Sentences
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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
"I realised I didn't want the fame or the riches. I wanted to be a mum and a wife. Being a kid from foster home, that was all I actually craved."
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
The stigma stayed with PJ his whole life, even after finding a loving foster home and, in later years, tracking down his birth mother, who was separated from him when he was a one-year-old.
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025
By May 1984, two of the Galston sisters — Denise and Debbie — had joined Sindle at the foster home.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
He ends up at Casa Pamar, a foster home in Tapachula, Mexico, just north of the Guatemalan border.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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