As a child of the 1970s, Myeshia Mizuno still remembers watching the Richard Dawson incarnation of “Family Feud” at home. Now, she’s the new showrunner on the Steve Harvey-hosted daytime version in syndication and the primetime “Celebrity Family Feud” on ABC — which returns July 9 for...
Child Zack burying a corpse of a child.Since then, he stayed in the run-down orphanage where children were likely to die, and the trafficking was illegal. His caretakers were rather abusive, even "forgetting" to give food to the children for multiple days, forcing Zack to dig through trash...
If you’re outside of New Jersey, click here to find a support groupnear you. Oregon: Congregate Care and Structural Deficiencies The state of Oregon is under scrutiny for their treatment of youth in the child welfare system. One problem is Oregon’s continued reliance on congregate care faci...
Fortunately, all passed off very well, even if we discovered that an extra small child life jacket is big enough to fit 4 or 5 Annas and so her chance to have a first ride in the Riva was thwarted. We also welcomed our friends Margaret Chamberlain and Mike Herbert and had a lot of...
From John Boorman, the director of Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance and Excalibur, comes a wildly ambitious parable that transports us to a singularly imaginative realm. The Emerald Forest is an exotic and erotic nightmare replete with one lushly enrapturing scene after another. For...
2013 was a difficult year for the child welfare system in Kentucky as budget estimates failed to cover its growth and several funding cuts were made. Among these cuts was the kinship care subsidy, which helps kinship parents shoulder the additional cost of raising their relatives. Now, kinship ...
I shall not offer any palliation or apology for my misconduct. You told me it admitted none. I frankly confess it; and if the most humble acknowledgment of my offences, with an assurance that they have cost me the deepest repentance, can in any degree atone for them, I now make that...
though with an important social message. The film has the flaws of the book but adds to it a sense of reality that obscures that we are seeing things through the rose-colored glasses of a child. Many people like the movie because they hero-worship Atticus Finch, apparently missing that he...
child, the fact stands that every year 20,000 teenagers will time out of the system with no permanency. Many simply “drop off the radar”, she tells me. Some return to families, even to abuse and neglect, and some vanish. Others choose the option of working within the foster system ...
My eldest, if I’d given birth to her would have made me a teenage mother. I bear that stigma everywhere with frowns and sideways glances. It is especially bad at church where I’m the youngest woman there with a child in elementary school. Most women my age are in the nursery ...