foster care

See also: fostercare

English

Noun

foster care (uncountable)

1. A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted.

Translations

system by which a child is cared for

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: acolliment familiar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寄養／寄养 (zh) (jìyǎng), 家庭寄養／家庭寄养 (jiātíng jìyǎng)

• Dutch: pleegzorg (nl) m or f
• Finnish: perhehoito
• French: accueil familial m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: nevelőszülő(k)nél történő elhelyezés
• Irish: daltachas m, cúram altrama m
• Korean: 가정 위탁 (gajeong witak)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: daltachas m, daltachd f
• Spanish: acogimiento familiar m
• Turkish: yetiştirme yurdu (tr)

See also

• foster child
• foster family
• foster father
• foster home
• foster mother
• foster parent

 

Anagrams

• forecaster