foster home

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foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)

family, household, menage, home, house - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

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When Jewel finds herself in yet another foster home, she presents the chip on her shoulder proudly to the world of the new high school where everyone knows she's a loser "State kid.

Hernandez, Jo Ann Yolanda. The throwaway piece by Goldsmith, Francisca / Kliatt

Whitney has been in so many foster homes she considers herself an expert on their connected qualities, from happy ones to purely evil foster parents--but she doesn't know anything about trees, and her next foster home is located in them.

Home and Other Big, Fat Lies by Children's Bookwatch

Instead of being placed in an orphanage or foster home or left to fend for themselves, children enter a family-like setting.

SOS Children's Villages saves kids by Zibart, Rosemary / Mothering

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