Watch ABC News' and "Primetime's" special series on foster care, "A Call to Action: Saving Our Children," beginning Thursday, June 1. Despite more than a decade of intended reform, the nation's foster care system is still overcrowded and rife with problems. But taxpayers are spending $22...
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father in jail. His brother is also in jail and Chris spent time in foster care and juvenile hall. Chris can share what it is like to be a black doctor and even how he ended up treating a grand wizard of the KKK. His memoir is “Ward of the Court.” Contact him at (251) 207-...
Using the extraordinary resources of ABC News, we can make a difference -- putting foster care and child welfare on the policy map, and starting an open discussion of where the system is going and what needs to be done. This is a critical national issue, because these children will be co...
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she later took her mother’s name, Baker. Her mother was frequently confined in an asylum, and Norma Jeane was reared by 12 successive sets of foster parents and, for a time, in an orphanage. In 1942 she married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but ...
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In January 1974, when SLA members Russell Little and Joseph Remiro were arrested for Foster’s murder, the group began to plan another violent act. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, then a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, was kidnapped from her apartment by three SLA ...
Poverty forced him to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry, but, on the death of Poe’s foster mother, John Allan purchased his release from the army and helped him get an appointment to theU.S. Military Academy at West Point. Before going, Poe published a new volume at ...