foster-child

寄养儿童,养子

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- : a needy child, as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.

Examples

It meant her foster children could avoid some awkward conversations.
About 3% of same-sex couples are raising a foster child and more than 21% are raising an adopted child, making them seven times more likely than different-sex couples to be raising an adopted child.
Group home providers serving foster children were required to obtain short-term residential therapeutic program licenses under the new state law.
Allie is an abused foster child in the southern US who specializes, when her power comes, in control.
She’d anticipated that any foster child she had would be in school, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.
Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.
A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.

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foster-child

寄养儿童,养子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- : a needy child, as one living in an impoverished country, supported or aided by contribution to a specific charity.

Examples

It meant her foster children could avoid some awkward conversations.
About 3% of same-sex couples are raising a foster child and more than 21% are raising an adopted child, making them seven times more likely than different-sex couples to be raising an adopted child.
Group home providers serving foster children were required to obtain short-term residential therapeutic program licenses under the new state law.
Allie is an abused foster child in the southern US who specializes, when her power comes, in control.
She’d anticipated that any foster child she had would be in school, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.
Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.
A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.

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