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foster home

foster home : a household in which care is provided to a child who has been orphaned or removed from the home of his or her natural parents (as for reasons of abuse, neglect, or delinquency) ...


Foster child

Foster child, 'Foster Child' need not be the real legitimate child of the person who brings him up. He is essentially the child of another person but is nursed, reared and brought up by another person as his own son, K.V. Muthu v. Angamuthu Ammal, AIR 1997 SC 628 (632): (1997) 2 SCC 53....


Foster son

Foster son, a 'Foster Son' is a son who is not the real son or direct descendant of a person after his marriage, K.V. Muth v. Angamuthu Ammal, AIR 1997 SC 628 (632): (1997) 2 SCC 53....


foster

foster : affording, receiving, or sharing nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal relationships [a child] [a parent] vt fos·tered fos·ter·ing : to give parental care to ...


foster child

foster child A child other than a natural or adopted child who lived with the taxpayer for the entire year and whom the taxpayer treated as his or her own child. ...


Fosterer

One who or that which fosters...


home schooled

Receiving or having received formal education especially primary or secondary education at home rather than in a school The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home as home schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools...


Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, means a hospital or, as the case may be, a nursing home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for the treatment and care of mentally ill person and includes a convalescent home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for such mentally ill persons; but does not include any general hospital or general nursing home established or maintained by the Government and which provides also for psychiatric services. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (q) ]...


Shelter home

Shelter home, means a home or a drop-in-centre set up under s. 37. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2(u)]Means any shelter home as may be notified by the State Government to be a shelter home for the purpose of this Act. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(t)]...


american society of home inspectors

american society of home inspectors the American Society of Home Inspectors is a professional association of independent home inspectors. Phone: (800) 743-2744 Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


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