fosterhome

English

Noun

fosterhome (plural fosterhomes)

1. Alternative form of foster home
   • 1955, United Nations. Technical Assistance Administration, European Exchange Plan Seminar on the Institutional Treatment of Juvenile Offenders, Vienna, 27 September to 9 October 1954, page 87:

     For children of 7-14 years of age, life in family-group homes with house parents offers many possibilities but one should consider seriously whether fosterhome care is not indicated for a large group of these children. Fosterhome care should also be applied to juvenile delinquents (in co-operation with child guidance clinics).

   • 1959, John Frosch, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis - Volume 5, page 545:

     She also discusses the desirability of a "mother house," a fosterhome placement with an analyzed motherly person. If fosterhome placement is combined with analytic treatment, work, and recreation, results may be positive.

   • 1971, Boston College. Center for Field Research and School Services, Issues of Aid to Nonpublic Schools, page 12:

     Under the probate code a probate judge is clothed with the authority to place a minor, that is any child who has not attained his seventeenth birthday, in a private fosterhome.

   • 2012, Vera Fahlberg, A Child's Journey Through Placement, page 201:

     Jerry, age two, has been living in the same fosterhome for fourteen months.