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Three young adults reflect on their life in care

Like most young people who have experienced foster care, Maggie, Captain, and Kathryn have been uprooted and moved through courtrooms, group homes, foster families. Each move comes at a cost. They lose friends and mentors; they fall behind in school. And the cost is the ability to envision a successful future outside foster care.

But a knack for survival and the blessing of loving, thoughtful, caring adults in their life also have helped these young people forge a sense of identity they carry proudly out into the world. How can we change the child welfare system in ways that will help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth grow into healthy adults? Listen.

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LGB foster parents needed but mistreated

Despite the desperate need for willing and skilled foster parents, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people have frequently been discouraged, frustrated, and discriminated against during the application process and during their tenure as foster parents.

Now, the first study ever of LGB foster parents examines these roadblocks and spotlights an urgent need for improvement in the public child welfare system.

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