adopt(TAKE INTO HOME)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parenting & caring for children
adopt
adoptable
adopted
adoptee
adoption
caretaking
child-rearing
childless
childlessness
childmind
kinship care
kinship carer
lawnmower parent
looked-after
milestone
skin to skinidiom
snowploughing
stay-at-home
swaddle
unadoptable

fosterverb (ENCOURAGE)

[ T ]
to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings: 鼓励；促进；培养
foster something in someoneI'm trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children.我正努力培养我的孩子们对古典音乐的兴趣。
They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in the former communist countries.他们正在讨论促进前共产主义国家民主和繁荣的最佳办法。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Encouraging and urging on
abet
barrack for someone
bread
bring
bring someone out
cultivate
get in there!idiom
get out of here!idiom
go on
good/great/lovely stuff!idiom
goose
muster
pave
pave the wayidiom
pep talk
permit
prepare
spur
stimulus
stoke

Examples of fostering

fostering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The contemporary stepfamily : making links with fostering and adoption.
Within this tradition, adoption and fostering used to be the two main ways of providing alternative care to orphans and abandoned children.
Flexible learning activities fostering autonomy in teaching training.
It was held that listening was a core musical competence whose fostering required close attention and special training.
It also means that fostering a child anywhere within the entire tribal group should have the same meaning as placement with relatives here.
It is our hope that workshops like this one, by fostering contact between these research communities, can help close the gap.
But the second mechanism at work in fostering consumer trust in a physician was the insurance system, which diffused the doctor's charges among all policyholders.
One of the most promising implications of these data was in fostering a preventive paradigm for symptom palliation.
The role of selective material incentives in fostering activist participation increased significantly over the course of the 1990s.
The efficacy of interventions for maltreated infants in fostering secure attachment.
And why shouldn't poetry be used as a means of fostering our growing awareness of the function of accents?
Because this group is at risk for language problems, information about factors fostering language development is of particular interest.
The overarching message emerging from the present investigation is that multi-child contexts can be positive learning environments in fostering early social-cognitive and language development.
They worried, too, about the potential for fostering labor unrest at a time when unions were growing in influence.
Till the end, imperial politics remained a slow process of fostering minimum common consensus prior to action.
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