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  • n  a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child

  • I may have to call the foster-parent people.
  • In Arkansas, for example, voters easily passed an initiative that did what state legislators had refused to do: ban adoptions and even foster-parent roles for unmarried couples .
  • Willing, capable blacks actively seek to foster-parent and adopt black children under the aegis of the Black Community Crusade for Children, coordinated by the Children's Defense .

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