What Foster Youth Need
As one who lived within the foster care system for eighteen years, I hope I might be considered an expert on what we needed as foster children.
I make these statements not from a textbook, but from my own life experience within the foster care system. I am addressing those of us [...]
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I was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950 and grew up in the quagmire of the Michigan Foster Care System from birth. By the time I was eleven years old I had been in three institutions and eleven different foster homes. Finally I was sent to and graduated from, the famed “Father Flanagan’s Boys Home…better known [...]
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I ask the aforementioned question as a survivor of the foster care system of the 1950s and 1960s.
How many more children need be lost, abused, killed or languishes within the foster care system? How long before America wakes up and realizes the system is broken and demand changes?
One would think with all the progress we [...]
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