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2 unusual facts about foster care


Demetri Betts

In 1980 when Tony was seven Child Protective Services removed Donovan from the home and put him back into the foster care system.

Joseph Wallace

Despite this, Joseph and his younger brother Joshua were removed from a foster family and returned to Amanda, who killed Joseph with an electrical cord.


Ben Thapa

He entered foster care when he was eleven when his mother lost her battle to care for her children following her struggle with arthritis.

Carl Feilberg

Following the early death of both parents Feilberg was placed in foster care with Danish relatives, his aunt Louise Stegman and her husband graingrocer Conrad Stegmann at the time living in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hilton Dawson

He worked as a Social Work Manager from 1983–97, involving Children's Homes, Fostering and Adoption, and Day care.

Love Thy Trophy

On Spooner Street the neighbors fight over the missing trophy and Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland are quick to badmouth the Griffins, leading CPS to place Stewie in a foster home where he lives with Islamic, African, Chinese, Sikh, Inuit, and Mexican kids his age.

Marqise Lee

While Lee finished sixth grade, his grandfather died and his grandmother moved to the housing projects in Baldwin Village, Los Angeles; Lee and his younger sister chose not to move with her and instead became wards of the state.

Nancy Hazel

The following year, she developed what became known as the Kent Family Placement Project (KFPP), the forerunner of all modern foster care across the United Kingdom.


see also

2011 Dearborn mosque bombing plot

On September 1, 1979, the Merced Sun-Star reported that Stockham, whom it described as a "32-year-old Moslem convert", had taken his then-9-year-old son Kane out of foster care and brought Kane and a gun on board his rented Cessna 150 in attempt to land at Los Angeles International Airport and hijack an airliner to take him to Iran.

Finding Chandra

Horwitz and Higham shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their examination of the deaths of children in the D.C. foster care system.

Grace After Midnight

The book chronicles Pearson's life in East Baltimore, including her birth as a three-pound crack baby, her placement into foster care and her eight-year prison sentence in Jessup, Maryland, from second-degree murder charges.

Human trafficking in Gabon

In direct support of victim protection measures, the government spent approximately $270,000 to support three centers offering foster care to child victims of trafficking in Libreville and Port-Gentil.

Janice Huff

Huff has received honors and awards For her work on "Wednesday's Child," the prestigious Administration for Children's Services' "2004 Golden Heart Award," the 2004 "Miracle Makers Media Award" for her commitment and dedication to helping New York City's Foster Care children and the Second Annual "Nicholas Scoppetta Award for Service to Children."

Jewish Children's Home in Oslo

After some time at the Jewish community's cabin at Skui in Bærum and in foster care, they moved into rented facilities in Industrigaten and finally into a building the Jewish community had acquired at Holbergsgate 21 in Oslo.

Judy Lewis

She obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in clinical psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles, became a licensed family and child counselor in 1992, and was a practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles, with specialty in foster care and marriage therapy.

National Adoption Day

More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November, in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care.

Neighbor To Family, Inc.

In 1998, Florida child welfare officials invited Johnson to bring the program to Daytona Beach, and legislation authored by State Representative Evelyn J. Lynn mandated a sibling foster care program and initial funding from the state's Department of Children and Families.

Partners In Development Foundation

:In 2006, Partners in Development Foundation was awarded a master contract from the Department of Human Services (DHS) to create and implement innovative strategies to better meet the needs of Hawai‘i’s children in foster care and the resource families that care for them.

Preston Long

In 2005, he was appointed to a three-year term on the Foster Care Review Board the Arizona Supreme Court.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Colorado

Following the House vote, Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila purported that "The ability for religious-based institutions to provide foster care and adoption services for Colorado's children is now dangerously imperiled".