Foster
Grow up
Grow up verb - To become mature.
Both terms in one sentence
- She places the boy with a centaur foster father so that he can grow up in peace and safety (and away from his mother's violent influence).
Source: Give Him a Normal Life - Their foster mother was the only one who ever believed they could grow up to be good people.
Source: Loser Son of Loser Dad - A variant in Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather series: Hetty's foster brother Jem promises to marry her when they grow up, but after Hetty returns to the Foundling Hospital, she is devastated to learn that Jem has now made the same promise to their younger foster sister Eliza.
Source: Settle for Sibling
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