To the end of June
Subtitle: the intimate life of American foster care
By: Cris Beam
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780151014125
Subjects: Foster home care
Description: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Catch; title: King Solomon's baby; title: Eye of the beholder; title: Timing is anything; title: Drugs in the system; title: Catch as catch can; title: Hold; title: Surge control; title: Chutes and ladders and chutes; title: Arrested in development; title: Taking agency; title: Homespun; title: Release; title: Fantasy islands; title: There's something about Mary; title: Experiment; title: Touching the elephant; title: Last call; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments.