Foster Father

He was a sort of foster-father to the youth who startled the literary world with his brilliant and forceful prose, just as he amazed his associates by his freedom of thought and capacity for living. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The foster-father has since been arrested, although police are continuing to search for his wife. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Coached by my ambitious foster-father, I had a considerable array of compelling arguments at my disposal. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)

And then he sat on the bed and we had a nice little chat, uncle and nephew, foster-father to foster-son. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The child's foster-father claims she had been bought for about $20 from a worker at a hospital devastated in the disaster, which killed over 30,000 people. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Today begins the nine-days of intensive prayer to Saint Joseph, the foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

He was heart-sick over the change that had come to the beloved features of his foster-father. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

It is eminently fitting that St. Joseph, a working man who became the foster-father of Christ and patron of the universal Church, should be honored on this day. ❋ Barbara (2009)

Wikipedia describes him - in perhaps the most untheologically PC way imaginable - as the ‘foster-father’ of Jesus. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

From the foster care child routinely stripped naked, beaten and hung upside down in a closet for not performing oral sex well enough on his foster-father, to the independently wealthy child left to be sexually abused by others and physically and emotionally abused by her parents at home, the ability to parent isn't something that's inherent in parenting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You understand: suppose that I were to let her go and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching over her. ❋ Unknown (2008)