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"Who should get to keep a child: the parents who nurse and tend him, or the parents who brought him into the world?"
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Chris J. Rice reaches out to the baby brother she left behind when she ran away from their abusive mother at 15.
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As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
View ArticleHow ‘Jane Crow’ Is Ravaging Families of Color
Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.
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Lara B. Sharp's efforts to gather information about what happened to her in foster care and as a ward of the state turn up nothing but incorrect records.
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