How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Drawing on the life stories of several foster children, author Claudia Rowe, a long-time journalist and now an editorial writer at the Seattle Times, exposes the chilling truth: the nation's foster care system is a "major gear" driving mass homelessness and the incarceration crisis in American cities. She shares shocking statistics—including studies that found up to 59 percent of youth who grew up in foster care have been incarcerated by age 26—and outlines how the system's structural failures lead…
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