Children Youth and Family

National Foster Care Month

May 18, 2010

Did you know it would take less than 1% of the U.S. population to provide a family for every child in foster care? May is National Foster Care Month and there has never been a greater need to bring attention to children waiting for forever homes. More than 463,000 children are currently in foster care [...]

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Made in Taiwan

May 1, 2010

So how do I know the election worker was Taiwanese? The fact that she asked me to write about the plight of the T people and the horrors of their government. The fact that she went so far as to ask me if she could hand out leaflets to the voters and/or post them on [...]

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Census

March 4, 2010

Every child loves a good game of hide and seek. There are the fun butterflies they get in their tummies when they’re waiting to be discovered and the pride they feel when they’re able to count to ten and then yelling, “Ready or not, here I come!” But children who are hidden from the U.S. [...]

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Once in a Blue Moon

October 6, 2009

Once in a Blue Moon a new book by Eileen Goudge. Two sisters separated at a young age, put through the foster care system and reunited later in life. The fact that they don’t necessary fall into “sisterhood” right away again, but eventually stand together as sisters do is a story well told by Ms. [...]

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