![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And of course, there are advocates and bureaucrats in the infinitely infuriating and famously overwhelmed U.S. There are the children who fight the love that is handed to them, resolved not to be thrown away again, and would-be parents who find that it's far more difficult to build dreams and families than adoption pamphlets would suggest. In "To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care," Cris Beam rejects such self-righteous simplicity, instead introducing readers to a few of the thousands of cases that churn through the system every year - addicts and teens whose children have been yanked from them (arguably for good reason, but maybe not), foster parents who have gained and given up children (again for good reason, but maybe not), toddlers and teens who have been whipsawed from one heartbreak to another. ![]()
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