What does a foster parent mean in the UK?

[erwin1978]

What does a foster parent mean in the UK? Is it the same here in the US?

 

[Arris]

From www.dictionary.com :
adj.
Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties: foster parents; foster grandparents; a foster home.

Same meaning. We also use "adopted" in place of "foster".
Although adoption is a legal process...

 

[Spliffmeister]

unless as is often the case in the UK, the parent is a raging alcoholic and drinks far too much Fosters .

 

[erwin1978]

That's the definition I was looking for:blackeye:

 

[Rfoster]

Roger Foster

Since my last name is Foster, I generally tell all my children they are Foster children....