0 present participle of foster
1 to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent:
2 to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings:
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.
