(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(2) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(5) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(6) I had two friends who were fostered, and they went through this.
(7) The approach must create an organizational culture which fosters commitment to overall goals in the system's members.
(8) Endocrinological studies of the time to the 1st ovulatory cycle in early and late maturing girls in Finland (Apter and Vihko, 1983) are contrary to the Bangladeshi results reported by Foster in 1986.
(9) The reform had already been put to me by the excellent John Simmonds at British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) who – without much success – had been urging this reform for some years.
(10) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(11) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(12) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(13) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(14) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(15) These courses will provide foster carers with more understanding and new techniques to apply in their fostering.
(16) Six groups of primiparous females were tested for maternal behavior to foster pups presented 9-10 days after Cesarean delivery: three groups were permitted to interact with pups for a 2-h period 36 h after Cesarean delivery; and three groups were separated from pups until testing and were given no maternal experience.
(17) A patient was observed with limited adhesive arachnitis of nontuberculous origin producing Foster-Kennedy syndrome.
(18) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(19) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(20) We have also shown the influence of age, but not of parity, of foster mothers on DMBA-induced transmammary carcinogenesis in F1 individuals.
Guardianship
Definition:
(n.) The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly female patients with organic brain disease were the group on whom guardianship was most used either to support them in the community or to facilitate admission to residential care.
(2) This is in keeping with the restrictive laws governing women’s rights in the country, which includes the guardianship system which restricts women’s independent free movement, and the inability to drive.
(3) "There is a difference between a civilian democratic state that guarantees man's basic rights and military guardianship," warned the Nobel laureate.
(4) Evidence suggests that children can do just as well in other forms of stable placements such as long-term fostering and "special guardianship" – a court order that gives a guardian legal parental responsibility for a child without removing responsibility altogether from the birth parents.
(5) The government has also declined to endorse moves advocated by Field and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, towards the introduction of a pilot guardianship scheme under which a trained adult would be given the task of looking after child victims.
(6) Multidimensional scaling of the aggregate proximity matrix for the items showed three dimensions in the caregiver task domain: type of impairment (physical vs. cognitive-emotional), location of caregiving (within home vs. outside home), and response to parental incompetency (autonomy-fostering vs. guardianship).
(7) Guardianship was rarely used to prevent hospitalization.
(8) In particular, standardized and reliable assessments of competency are lacking; a family member's petition for guardianship is seldom challenged by the older person; and the primary goal of most guardianship cases to preserve the estate of the older individual.
(9) The powers of guardianship under the 1983 Mental Health Act confer on the guardian powers to require the patient to reside in a specified place, to require attendance for treatment and to require access to the patient for appropriate health and social services personnel.
(10) The legal measures covering protection and care in connection with legislation governing guardianship and fosterage involving medical nursing, which have remained unchanged in principle since 1896, increasingly create the risk of obstructing and hampering the treatment and rehabilitation of mental patients.
(11) Stories such as his suggest that, although they’ve been used in Britain for more than a decade, property guardianship schemes are not all they are cracked up to be.
(12) The areas covered in the Call to Action are: A stronger focus on the needs of adolescents entering the care system; Investment into and effective implementation of Staying Put; Improvement of educational outcomes for looked-after children; Improving access to mental health services for looked-after children, adopted children and care leavers; Prioritisation and effective measurement of wellbeing for looked-after children; Access to adoption support at an earlier stage in the process; Changing Special Guardianship Order processes so they are used only when appropriate and allow for effective support.
(13) In addition, Pennsylvania guardianship statutes have been amended.
(14) Originally developed in the Netherlands as a form of "anti-squatting" to secure buildings against uninvited guests, guardianship is a rapidly growing part of the UK property security industry, with around 20 private companies offering space for up to 10,000 guardians.
(15) Part I deals with the historical evolution of the concept and definition of mental subnormality, both in the medical and in the legal field, and also the civil issues concerning the mentally subnormal, such as education, employment and community living, marriage, parenthood and involuntary sterilization, the right to treatment and the right to refuse treatment, guardianship and mental incompetency.
(16) There are still many questions to resolve about the details of the tunnel and where the portals should be sited, but I think the advantages of a tunnel of at least 2.9km, which is what the government is proposing, far outweighs the disadvantages.” While broad agreement has been reached between Historic England , the statutory authority for ancient monuments, the newly split off English Heritage, which has guardianship of Stonehenge itself and the new visitor centre, and the National Trust, which owns thousands of surrounding acres of land, nothing happens at Stonehenge without passionate argument.
(17) FASD is also having an impact on children who are undiagnosed and who are subject to special guardianship orders or being looked after by kinship carers.
(18) Such guidelines are of special importance both because they have not been set down in detail, and because of recent moves to establish adult guardianship legislation in various jurisdictions.
(19) The male guardianship system, which deprives women of the right to make decisions about almost all aspects of their lives, is still in place although the government promised the UN human rights council in 2009 that it would abolish the system.
(20) Three cases of guardianship for mental impairment were excluded from the analysis leaving 23 patients with mental illness.