Foster home care

found: Kühlmann, U. Die irische Ziehkindschaft im europäischen Kontext, 2017:p. 9 (fosterage in Ireland, a system for the rearing of children)

found: Merriam-Webster Online, viewed 22 May 2017(Fosterage: the act of fostering; a custom once prevalent in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland of entrusting one's child to foster parents to be brought up)

found: History Ireland website, viewed 22 May 2017:Spring 1997 Features page (Fosterage in the past was a form of child-rearing)

found: Wikipedia, viewed 22 May 2017(Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage)