foster home

English

Noun

foster home (plural foster homes)

1. A household in which a child is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent, especially when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.

Translations

non-adoptive household caring for child

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄養家庭／寄养家庭 (jìyǎng jiātíng)

• Finnish: sijaiskoti (fi)
• Hungarian: befogadó család, nevelőcsalád
• Indonesian: keluarga asuh
• Irish: baile altrama m, áras altrama m
• Spanish: casa de acogida f
• Swedish: familjehem (sv) n, fosterhem (sv) n

See also

• foster care
• foster child
• foster family
• foster father
• foster mother
• foster parent