Usage Note
Heimkind (sometimes considered stigmatising) refers to a child who grows up in a residential care home (Heim) rather than with a family. Social work now prefers Kind in stationärer Unterbringung.
Examples
"Als Heimkind wuchs sie ohne feste Bezugspersonen auf."
Natural Translation
Growing up as a child in care, she lacked stable attachment figures.
Literal Translation
As care-home-child grew she without fixed reference-persons up.
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