A foster parent.
Some fosters end up adopting.
The care given to another; guardianship.
To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
To cultivate and grow something.
Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
To nurse or cherish something.
To be nurtured or trained up together.
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
foster parents
Receiving such care.
a foster child
Related by such care.
We are a foster family.
A forester.