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The children you care for are your "charges."
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The term "childcare" (child care) may be spelled as one word or two, and slightly more rarely as the hyphenated adjective child-care.
If they have been left in the care of a person who is no longer able to care for them, call the child abuse and neglect hotline in that state. To really answer this question better, I would have to know the age of the child that the parent wont return to care for.
The parents tried to lecture the disobedient child, but the child did not care.
Jobseeker is one of the best sites that will pull up a list of child care jobs for you. Care is another site that post child care positions needed on a weekly basis.
look after, care for, protect, tend
Illegal Slavery
If there is someone who has custody of a child and can no longer care for the child, they need to give the child to another family member. The local DHS office can help find family members to take care of the child.
Yes childcare is a compound word. The words are care and child.
care and education
maintenance care