Fosterhome

Quick meaning: Fosterhome is a noun meaning Alternative form of foster home.

Meaning

Alternative form of foster home.

Example Sentences

Jerry, age two, has been living in the same fosterhome for fourteen months.

Under the probate code a probate judge is clothed with the authority to place a minor, that is any child who has not attained his seventeenth birthday, in a private fosterhome.

She also discusses the desirability of a "mother house," a fosterhome placement with an analyzed motherly person. If fosterhome placement is combined with analytic treatment, work, and recreation, results may be positive.

For children of 7-14 years of age, life in family-group homes with house parents offers many possibilities but one should consider seriously whether fosterhome care is not indicated for a large group of these children. Fosterhome care should also be applied to juvenile delinquents (in co-operation with child guidance clinics).

Word Forms

• fosterhomes

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