To the end of June : : the Intimate Life of American Foster Care

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Preface -- Catch -- King Solomon's baby -- Eye of the beholder -- Timing is anything -- Drugs in the system -- Catch as catch can -- Hold -- Surge control -- Chutes and ladders and chutes -- Arrested in development -- Taking agency -- Homespun -- Release -- Fantasy islands -- There's something about Mary -- Experiment -- Touching the elephant -- Last call -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
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.

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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xvii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780151014125
0151014124

SUBJECTS
Foster home care.