Sadie, having been in and out of twelve foster homes, strives to go unnoticed, but it becomes difficult when she moves to her thirteenth group home in a small town, and she is just starting to think it might be okay to let a few people into her life, when a shocking revelation about her "real" family throws her into turmoil.
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother, Hope, shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. But as her mental health declined authorities took Andrew away at the age of seven and institutionalized Hope. Andrew survived horrible foster care and went on to attend Wesleyan, Harvard Law School, and became a Fulbright Scholar.
Presents a collection of essays that reviews the process and practice of adoption and foster care in the United States from the colonial period to the present; and contains primary documents and representations of orphans in literature and music.
teenage voices from the foster care system : youth communication
Desetta, Al
1996
Presents narratives from over three dozen young writers, ages fifteen through twenty, who are living within the foster care system, exploring the various aspects of life in foster care and the continual search for family and security.
A shattering account of her 18 years as "ward of the state", Cameron takes us inside the life of a foster child. She shares with us her heartbreaking struggle to survive in a foster care systems where children's welfare often seemed the lowest priority.
Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.
Presents a discussion of various issues pertaining to foster families, covering different reasons, such as abuse, neglect, or abandonment, that a child becomes part of a foster family, and examines the different challenges and rewards involved.
