fosterage

/faw-ster-ij, fos-ter-/US // ˈfɔ stər ɪdʒ, ˈfɒs tər- //UK // (ˈfɒstərɪdʒ) //

寄养,抚养费,养育费,寄养家庭

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
- : the condition of being a foster child.
- : an act of promoting or encouraging: The board will undertake the fosterage of our new project.

as inadoption

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Fosterage, we are told, was of two sorts, for affection and compensation.
Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.
Fosterage consisted in putting out the child to be reared by a tribesman who became its foster-father.
A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
Marriage and fosterage between the English and Irish are forbidden, and declared to be high treason.