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foster-parent

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Noun1.foster-parent - a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
foster parent
defender, guardian, protector, shielder - a person who cares for persons or property
foster father, foster-father - a man who is a foster parent
foster mother, foster-mother - a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child
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I am strongly inclined to believe that this view is correct, from having been independently led (as we shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express it, on each other; each female laying several eggs in the nests of several other females, and the male ostrich undertaking all the cares of incubation, like the strange foster-parents with the cuckoo.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
Rokoff doubtless had sailed directly to the mainland, where it would be a comparatively easy thing for him to find the means of delivering the infant Jack into the hands of the cruel and savage foster-parents, who, as his note had threatened, would have the upbringing of the child.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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