My family makes me laugh, drives me nuts, breaks my heart, and is
fundamental to my sense of myself and my place in the world -- it's a relationship like no other. The idea
of a kid having to go without that, of learning tragically early that
they have only themselves to rely on, breaks my heart.
So I
triple dog dare you to read these stories from American Radio Works and
not cry. They've done a series on adopting of teens from foster care,
talking to a bunch of kids who faced aging out of foster homes and
parents who found themselves opening their homes to those teens
(incidentally, all of the parents they interviewed? Lesbian couples.
Score one for real family values).
While the incidence
of kids in foster care being placed in permanent families is growing,
if a kid makes it into their teens without being adopted, they are
unlikely to ever be.
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