How to Use foster parent in a Sentence

foster parent

noun
  • What were those early years like as a new foster parent?
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The couple has been foster parents for four years.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • All my neighbors are foster parents too.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Sandra & Jeff have been foster parents for four years.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • The foster parents and their adult daughter pleaded guilty to abusing children in their care.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • How has being a foster parent shaped your understanding of what kids in the system need?
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The best recruiters for new foster parents are current foster parents.
    — Sarah Healy Eagan, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • He was later put with foster parents in Heidelberg because there was no one there.
    — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For those unfamiliar, what’s the process to become a foster parent?
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Not long after, his foster parents asked if Claire and Eric could watch him on weekends.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Piper has been a foster parent for 10 years with about 100 young people coming through her home.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The foster parents do not have children of their own, and this was their first experience as foster parents.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Texas pays foster parents roughly $750.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • His foster parents were modest artisans who sent Genet to the village school, a few meters from their front doorstep.
    — Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Wilma’s last foster parents picked Krissi up from the hospital and later adopted her.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Foster kids need love and support, and the system needs dedicated foster parents.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • As a foster parent, Hickenlooper said Lewis is in a position of trust.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The kids eventually were turned over to an orphanage run by their church and experienced abuse at the hands of foster parents, court records say.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Until then, the foster parents are in regular contact and send photos and update them on little Nicholas.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Ever since she was abandoned in the hospital bathroom at the top of the shift, Dana has been trying to find a foster parent for the baby.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Sara reportedly turned off the location on her cell phone after leaving home and has not contacted her foster parents.
    — Bay City News, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The bill also provides two separate sources for child care funding for foster parents, according to Paris.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
  • How can the Kansas City community support foster parents like you?
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The ceremony was officiated by Tanya – the foster parent who allowed her, for the first time, to be a kid.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • The family, from Arkansas, recently shared a glimpse into their lives as foster parents that has since gone viral.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The shelter generally houses minors for days or weeks, until the children are returned home or placed into the care of foster parents.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Even greater, consider becoming a foster parent and/or an adoptive parent.
    — Laura Rivera, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Legislators said several foster parents shared their stories during the process.
    — Shannon Tyler march 27, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The first set of foster parents found Jasmine too difficult to handle, so she was sent to another home without her brothers, then to a third home, and then a fourth.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • The foster parent, who wished to remain anonymous, broke down after seeing a shelter's post about a kitten being returned by an adopter because of allergies.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025

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