1.   Another federal inmate thought it would be safe for a friend of a friend to act as foster mother while she served a few years for drug possession.

2.   As much as transracial adoptions were increasing at the time, her foster mother was upset that a white family would adopt Barbara.

3.   Bledsoe said she was told she had failed to show respect for the foster mother.

4.   A few weeks later, Ms. Washington traded a foster mother she had never liked for the troubled mother she scarcely knew.

5.   A former Mentor Inc. case worker, Frank Fitzgerald, testified that he warned the foster mother that the girl had a traumatic past and might be sexually aggressive.

6.   A foster mother who beat to death a child in her care got life.

7.   A year later his foster mother, Gail Johnson, fought a public battle to get him admitted to her local public school despite opposition from other parents.

8.   After a lifetime spent in the limbo of foster care, Richard had been adopted by his foster mother.

9.   After the roundups, domestic mares were used as foster mothers for the young foals.

10.   But in Mrs. Jackson, he found a foster mother who kissed his sleepy eyelids, who steadied his wobbling bicycle, who promised to make him her son.