If you have been caring for a child for a long time, and they are in foster care waiting to be adopted, it might be that you decide to adopt that child.

如果您已被照顾的儿童相当长的时间，它们都是在寄养等待获得通过，可能是您决定要采取的儿童。

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The dependent must be your child, stepchild, adopted child, foster child, brother or sister, or a descendant of one of these.

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Matt Sandusky, a foster child formally adopted at 18, also described Jerry Sandusky rubbing, hugging and showering with him.

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