November 27, 2017
In To the End of June, Cris Beam attempts to explain why the foster system is so troubled, and she leaves open the question, “What next?” […]
May 16, 2017
People become foster parents for a variety of reasons. In Another Place at the Table, Kathy Harrison writes that her career as a foster parent began […]
April 25, 2017
In The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, we meet Victoria, a young woman who ages out of the foster system in California, and we […]
March 13, 2017
I was born in Charleston, South Carolina in the late eighties. From as early as I could remember I lived in a broken home. I was […]
March 1, 2017
Ever since I read Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl in fifth grade, stories of the Holocaust have mesmerized me. In Germany and German-occupied […]