foster parent

English

Noun

foster parent (plural foster parents)

1. An adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.

Translations

adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養父／养父 (zh) (yǎngfù) (adoptive father), 養母／养母 (zh) (yǎngmǔ) (adoptive mother), 養父母／养父母 (zh) (yǎngfùmǔ) (adoptive mother and adoptive father)

• Finnish: kasvatusvanhempi, sijaisvanhempi, perhehoitaja
• French: parent adoptif m
• Greenlandic: angajoqqaarsiaq
• Hungarian: nevelőszülő (hu), fogadott szülő
• Irish: altramaí m
• Italian: genitore adottivo m
• Manx: dolteyder m
• Maori: matua whāngai, matua taurima
• Polish: rodzic zastępczy
• Russian: приёмный роди́тель m (prijómnyj rodítelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: udomitelj (sh)
• Ukrainian: прийомний батько або мати m or f (pryjomnyj batʹko abo maty)
• Volapük: kälan (vo), hikälan (male), jikälan (vo) (female)

See also

• foster care
• foster child
• foster family
• foster father
• foster home
• foster mother