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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider's tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
3) Big Mama
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Winner of an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category, Big Mama depicts a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her orphaned grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult social welfare system. Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles. Dees has taken care of Walter since the age of four, when his...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's painful childhood in a series of foster homes, her deteriorating relationship with her emotionally unstable mother, abuse at the hands of a foster family, and her subsequent efforts to advocate for an improved foster care system.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children--and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"--
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart,...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Within Reshuffled, 22 adults who experienced foster or kinship care, bravely tell their stories; from youth handed difficult situations to adults of character and resolve. Every story and situation is unique, but the obstacles are consistent and resonate with teens in foster care today. Told in easy-to-read stories, Reshuffled is an inspiration for anyone whose childhood has fallen short."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him to activism, speaking out about the failings of the foster...
Author
Publisher
Topple Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Trans woman Precious Brady-Davis recalls her childhood growing up in the Omaha foster care system and Pentecostal faith as a biracial, gender-nonconforming child.
Born into traumatic circumstances, Brady-Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced, but has come to realize that she had a purpose all along. Here Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect,...
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