Foster Parent

Lifestyle / Adoption / Foster Parent: State-licensed adult who is paid or volunteers to take care of children, but is not related by blood, marriage or adoption.
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Other Words for Foster

Foster Verb Synonyms: promote, encourage, stimulate, further, forward, advance, cultivate, nurture, nourish, support, back, assist, help, aid, succor, patronize
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Other Words for Parent

Parent Verb Synonyms: father or mother, progenitor, progenitrix, procreator, begetter, materfamilias or paterfamilias, foster-parent, stepmother or stepfather, guardian, old lady or old man, facetiousmater or pater
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Foster-Adoption

Lifestyle / Adoption / Foster-Adoption: A child placement in which birth parents' rights have not yet been severed by the court or in which birth parents are appealing the court's decision but foster parents agree to adopt the child if/when MORE

Therapeutic Foster Home

Lifestyle / Adoption / Therapeutic Foster Home: Also knon as Therapy Foster Home. A foster home in which the foster parents have received special training to care for a wide variety of children and adolescents, usually those with significant emotio MORE

Treatment Foster Home

Lifestyle / Adoption / Treatment Foster Home: A foster home in which the foster parents are trained to offer treatment to children with moderate to severe emotional problems: also known as therapeutic foster home. MORE

Parent or caretaker

Lifestyle / Adoption / Parent or caretaker: Person responsible for the care of the child. MORE

Parental Leave

Business / Human Resources (HR) / Parental Leave: A benefit designed to provide employees with approved paid or unpaid time off following the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a dependent. MORE

Parent Element

Science / Geology / Parent Element: A radioactive element that spontaneously decays into a new substance. The product of this decay is known as a 'daughter' element. MORE