Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Foster
vb. To give care to (something or someone); esp., to give parental care to (a child who is not one's natural child).
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.
Fosterling
See foster child under CHILD.
foster care.
1. A program for parental care for children in lieu of the parental relationship with biological or adoptive parents. 2. The area of social services concerned with meeting the needs of children who participate in these types of programs.
foster child
See CHILD.
foster child.
A child whose care and upbringing are entrusted to an adult other than the child's natural or adoptive parents. -Also termed (archaically) fosterling. See foster parent under PARENT.
foster father
See foster parent under PARENT.
foster home
A household in which foster care is provided to a child who has been removed from his or her natural parents, usu. for abuse or neglect. 0 A foster home is usu. an individual home, but it can also be a group home.
foster mother
See foster parent under PARENT.
foster parent
An adult who, though without blood ties or legal ties, cares for and rears a child, esp. an orphaned or neglected child that might otherwise be deprived of nurture. Foster parents sometimes give care and support temporarily until a child is legally adopted by others. 2. See parent corporation under CORPORATION.
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.
foster-care review board
A board that reviews the permanent plans of foster-care placement of neglected and abused children.
fosterlean
Hist. 1. Remuneration for rearing a foster child. 2. JOINTURE.