Topic: Foster Care
Tomorrow night, the Heart Gallery NYC will launch new photographs of foster children in need of adoptive homes. The Heart Gallery NYC is made up of 100 portraits of New York City foster children who are awaiting adoptive families. The full exhibit ...
Hundreds of thousands of children are being beaten, starved, molested, and killed by foster parents and by behavioral "treatment" facilities where they are placed by he DSS every day. Often, the DSS gets calls from an angry ex-spouse who tells a bogus ...
Living a life that's less than satisfying is never much fun. The fact is that your life could be missing an important component. So how can you improve your life through giving? It might be a homeless shelter serving breakfast on Saturday ...
The media regularly confronts us with the poverty in third world countries. I recently completed a temporary assignment for an organization whose aim it is to improve the lifestyle of children in Africa. For a gala that I was asked to organize, ...
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Having more than the two children it took to replace you was selfish, our teachers said, and was taking the resources that belonged to someone else in our ...
As the battle for same sex marriage continues to be waged, another fight is being fought, mostly on a case by case basis. The thousands of children in foster care in the United States and the untold numbers in orphanages, often suffering ...
At the time, Rickey and E'von were licensed foster parents through a private foster care agency called Synthesis, Inc, in Lakewood, Colorado. When Rickey and E'von applied to be foster parents through All About Kids, Inc, another private foster care agency, they ...
Rosie O'Donnell is slated to star and serve as executive producer for a Lifetime television movie entitled America . Rosie Salutes Lifetime's America (October 21, 2008) I optioned the book 'America' in 2002 and worked on the script for a number of ...
Where do I begin to address the ways the US governments harm children they seek to protect? There is only so much screening the Department for Families and Children does to potential and eventual foster families. What about the family of five ...
All of our children are adopted. Private adoption offered what we wanted, an infant from a 'known' background, but again the total cost was prohibitive to a young couple. Meeting her nearly broke our hearts. These were our children. No. Two of ...