A Tiny Scar, From Falling By Lara B. Sharp Feature 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.
How ‘Jane Crow’ Is Ravaging Families of Color By Danielle Tcholakian Highlight Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families By Krista Stevens Highlight As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
A Runaway Sister’s Survivor Guilt By Sari Botton Highlight Chris J. Rice reaches out to the baby brother she left behind when she ran away from their abusive mother at 15.
‘He’s Our Baby’: What Happens When a Child Is Placed in Foster Care By Longreads Feature “Who should get to keep a child: the parents who nurse and tend him, or the parents who brought him into the world?”
