"Like the Jewish community, the Catholic Church fosters marriage in our own faith context," said the Rev. Lawrence Frizzell, director of the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University.
Even the Korean-born Nadine, the current housekeeper, is a Foster by marriage.
At the reception, a guest, Silas Pompton, the unscrupulous owner of Consolidated Glass Works, is trying to foster a marriage between his daughter, Geraldine, and an eligible young British duke.
Only one incident marred the glowing reports of his early childhood: at 4, when his foster parents' marriage began to break up, he caused a small fire at a baby sitter's apartment while playing with matches.
The Bush administration's plan to use federal money to foster healthy marriages among low-income families, first announced two years ago, has drawn considerable fire.
Money in the Bush proposal could be used to offer financial incentives to poor couples who wed, Mr. Horn said, but only as part of a state program to foster healthy marriages.
She added the English surname "Foster" upon her marriage to an expatriate British businessman.
However we see her, she had a sad life: a series of foster homes; a marriage that didn't afford her peace; disease; a relatively early death.
Ms. Lewis, who was a clinical psychologist specializing in foster care and marriage therapy, died of lymphoma at her home in Gladwyne, Pa., her daughter, Maria Tinney Dagit, said.
