WordNet
n. a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
Usage examples of "foster home".
The best they could hope for was to be in the same foster home, where Faith could take care of Scottie.
Jodie went to one foster home, while Faith and Scottie went to another.
Realistically, a good foster home would have been far preferable to the way shed been living, but it was never easy for kids to lose their families, no matter how rotten, and be deposited with strangers.
A little work on Coop's part would have turned up the fact that Red Tony was at the Charles Foster Home around that same time, too.
This family of friendsthat's why he could move from foster home to foster home without it ripping him up.
I was in a foster home, but she got me out so she could convince your father that she was a good mother.
They had a foster home for her and the people were coming for her in the morning.
Running away seemed like a bad idea now, and I mulled over whether I should go back to the foster home.
He had been shuttled from one foster home to another and had spent the years in between in an upstate orphanage.
Bowmaine that she was going to be transferred to another foster home the following day.