Other children will need an adoptive home, and sometimes foster parents become their child’s adoptive family. Children in foster care range from 0 to 21 years old, have experienced trauma, and may have …

Adoptive & Foster Families of Maine, Inc. & the Kinship Program provides support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families.

The meaning of FOSTER is having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for. How to use foster in a sentence.

FOSTER definition: to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage. See examples of foster used in a sentence.

If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent. She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children. [VERB noun]

1. to promote the growth or development of: to foster new ideas. 2. to bring up; rear: to foster a child.

FOSTER meaning: 1. to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent: 2…. Learn more.