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fosterlean (fos-t<<schwa>>r-leen).Hist. Remuneration for rearing a foster child.[Blacks Law 8th]

foster home.A household in which foster care is provided to a child who has been removed from his or her birth or adoptive parents, usu. for abuse or neglect. • A foster home is usu. an individual home, but it can also be a group home. [Cases: Infants 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§ 10–12.][Blacks…

foster child.See CHILD.[Blacks Law 8th]

foster-care review board.A panel of screened and trained volunteers who routinely review cases of children placed in foster care, examine efforts at permanency planning, and report to the court. [Cases: Infants 17, 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§ 10–12; Infants §§ 8–9.][Blacks Law 8th]

foster-care placement.The (usu. temporary) act of placing a child in a home with a person or persons who provide parental care for the child. Cf. OUT-OF-HOME PLACEMENT T. [Cases: Infants 226. C.J.S. Adoption of Persons §§ 10–12.][Blacks Law 8th]

foster-care drift.The phenomenon that occurs when children placed in foster care remain in that system, in legal limbo, for too many years of their developmental life before they are reunited with their parents or freed for adoption and placed in permanent homes. • The Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed in 1997 to help…

foster care. 1. A federally funded child-welfare program providing substitute care for abused and neglected children who have been removed by court order from their parents’ or guardians’ care or for children voluntarily placed by their parents in the temporary care of the state because of a family crisis. 42 USCA §§ 670–679a. • The…

fosterage,n.1. The act of caring for another’s child. 2. The entrusting of a child to another. 3. The condition of being in the care of another. 4. The act of encouraging or promoting.[Blacks Law 8th]

foster,adj.1. (Of a relationship) involving parental care given by someone not related by blood or legal adoption <foster home>.2. (Of a person) giving or receiving parental care to or from someone not related by blood or legal adoption <foster parent> <foster child>. foster,vb. To give care to (something or someone); esp., to give parental care…

fossage (fos-ij), n. Hist. A duty paid to maintain a moat around a fortification.[Blacks Law 8th]