'foster a child' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about the act of taking care of another person's child, either temporarily or permanently. For example: "After completing the necessary paperwork and training, the couple decided to foster a child."
Nicola and Grahame Looby said housing restrictions and a busy lifestyle could put people off fostering, but even those in full-time employment or education could foster a child.
It's not that she's trying to get out - she shows off her new pole-dancing tricks with a schoolgirl's innocent pride - it's just that she sees no reason why she shouldn't foster a child as well.
To foster a child's growth does not mean to impose some sort of ideal life script on one's child.
He recently became a new father, and wanted to find a way to help his employees when they have a baby or adopt or foster a child.
When you foster a child, not only do you invest in the future and well being of a child, you are also changing the life of that child.
So, with the best of intentions, she convinces her husband, Paul, that they should foster a child for a few weeks over the summer, as a trial run for long-term adoption.
At one point she fosters a child to work as her assistant.
This week is LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week, run by NFS, and the charity is appealing for more LGBT people to consider adopting or fostering a child.
They will be allowed an additional room as long as they have fostered a child or become a registered carer in the past 12 months.
And we face an important enigma because we know that the social support a child gets is really important in fostering a child's well being.
He said the 5,000 approved foster carers in the UK would continue to receive rent payments towards an "additional room" as long as they have fostered a child or become an approved foster carer in the previous 12 months.
