How to Use foster care in a Sentence

foster care

noun

• The child asked to come into foster care.
  — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
• How foster care failed my aunts and uncles.
  — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
• Many live on their own, some aging out of foster care with no place to go.
  — F. Amanda Tugade, Des Moines Register, 13 Feb. 2026
• One of the women had birthed a child who ended up in foster care.
  — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• The average length of stay in foster care is four to six weeks.
  — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
• Losing her kids to foster care was the turning point for her.
  — Vivian Ogunro, Twin Cities, 30 Aug. 2025
• The dog, a Labrador puppy, is now in foster care.
  — Patrick Damp, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
• Alexis had spent the most time in foster care, living in five homes.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• The pair have since been placed in temporary foster care.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
• One of their children is adopted from foster care.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
• For youth in foster care, that rhythm is often shattered.
  — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Police said Jet Blue is now safe and in foster care.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
• Thrust alone into the foster care system.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• Bogan did not know why the baby was put into foster care.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026
• They were checked over in a nearby hospital and are now in foster care.
  — Adam England, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026
• The average length of stay in foster care is 4 to 6 weeks.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
• Status offenders can be sent to foster care or group homes, where they are not locked up.
  — Jay Blitzman, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
• From there, Ali and three of her siblings were placed in the foster care system.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
• Weaving, for one, was told that her backstory was that of a lone wolf who grew up in foster care.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
• His father grew up in an orphanage and his mother in foster care.
  — Melanie Marshall, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
• The surviving children were placed in foster care.
  — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
• For years in foster care, Whitlock moved to new, often crowded places.
  — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• The video shows a hyper kitten post-surgery, playing around in foster care while sporting a tiny cone.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
• As their son grew, so did Claire’s awareness of the broader issues around foster care.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
• Cope and his wife, Angel, were licensed foster care parents for five years.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
• Can giving parents more money keep children out of foster care?
  — Sarah A. Font, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
• One of the child abuse charges relates to the couple's 5-year-old daughter, who was placed in foster care.
  — ABC News, 29 June 2026
• Both will focus on services for children aging out of the foster care system.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• And so by the numbers, taxpayers like us see, oh, fewer kids are going in foster care.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 26 May 2026
• And the total number of children in foster care dropped 10%.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026