Yet the results of The Fostering Network's new survey show that two in five fostered teenagers are already living with their third foster family since coming into care.
She ran her own media-and-tech consulting firm and was president for a time of the Karachi outpost of an organisation that fostered tech entrepreneurs, but didn't want to make money.
The point is that institutional reforms came after the policies that fostered growth; they did not precede it.Reform something, anythingSo what does cause growth to take off?
It was possible that the merger would be called off by regulators, a danger that fostered hesitancy over integration.
Bears also believed that the high degree of state direction in the Chinese economy was not an advantage, as many admirers liked to imagine, but a chronic weakness that fostered opacity, corruption and the misallocation of capital.
Economically, tight state controls have fostered stagnation and popular resentment while hindering foreign investment.
These are ambitions that in some ways hark back hundreds of years to a time before the rise of local government when Europe's squares, piazzas and market places fostered community and nurtured civic debate.
However, Obama's administration should be praised for at least reframing the rhetoric and ideological vision of America's intentions in the Middle East, away from the archaic and reactionary "us versus them" posturing to a more inclusive, conciliatory partnership fostered by mutual interests.
It was not only his shot-making and athleticism but a mental fortitude and new freedom fostered by his coach, Ivan Lendl, that enabled Murray to finally lift the title on the court where he had wept a year earlier in defeat to Roger Federer.
That alone may be enough to put the frighteners on the Portillo camp where allegations of whispering disloyalty towards Mr Hague have fostered mistrust of the frontrunner for the Tory leader's job.
Pervasive corruption and mismanagement fostered political and economic instability until 2003, when a former justice minister, Mikheil Saakashvili, led an uprising known as the Rose revolution.
