foster
Help something grow
To foster is to encourage or promote the development of something: foster cooperation, foster good relations.
With children, fostering means caring for them temporarily without legal adoption—a foster parent, foster home, or foster child provides or receives such care.
The word implies nurturing something that isn't originally your own. (Capitalized Foster is a surname.)
Attentive regard for others
- nourishProvide sustenance to
- cultivateGrow or develop purposefully
- cherishValue with deep affection
- rearBack portion or raise
raise · tend · support · encourage · guide · mentor · develop · protect
Putting somewhere specific
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- parentMother or father
- familyRelated people together
- homeOne's personal residence
child · guardianship · custody · caseworker · reunification · kinship · respite · permanency
Provisional in-between phase
- short-termOf limited duration
- provisionalConditional and possibly temporary
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- stopgapTemporary substitute measure
transitional · impermanent · emergency · respite · placement · shelter · housing · arrangement
Progress toward maturity
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- progressionSequential forward movement
- flourishingProspering vigorously
blossoming · thriving · maturation · evolution · enrichment · expansion · germination · sprouting
care
Attentive regard for others
rear · raise · tend · support · encourage · guide · mentor · develop · protect · shelter
placement
Putting somewhere specific
home · child · guardianship · custody · caseworker · reunification · kinship · respite · permanency · attachment
interim
Provisional in-between phase
- short-termOf limited duration
- provisionalConditional and possibly temporary
- transientTemporary, soon departing
stopgap · transitional · impermanent · emergency · respite · placement · shelter · housing · arrangement · custodial
development
Progress toward maturity
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- progressionSequential forward movement
flourishing · blossoming · thriving · maturation · evolution · enrichment · expansion · germination · sprouting · ripening
- helpingaid, assist, give a hand, help, helping hand
- empowerment verbsencourage, uplift, support, inspire, enable
- sustain synonymssupport, maintain, uphold, preserve, continue
- encourageencourage, urge, cheer on, exhort, motivate
- nurturing verbsfeed, nurture, tend, nurse, suckle
- grapefruit varietiesruby red, white grapefruit, pink grapefruit, star ruby, marsh
- foster parentsAdults raising others' children
- foster fatherMale caretaker of ward
- foster homesTemporary family placements
- foster motherWoman caring for another's child
- foster careSupervised substitute parenting
- foster childYouth in temporary guardianship
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