Two centuries deep into these government systems, those deemed unfit are disproportionately the poor, black and Hispanic. By last count, there were more than 400,540 children in foster care. On this shaky foundation, society bases its notions of the acceptable family and that which is unacceptable and must be dismantled.
foster care system that Beam describes as the "fascinating, if sad, culmination of three separate lines of social policy - toward poverty, racial difference, and child abuse - finally braiding together in the middle and end of the twentieth century." And of course, there are advocates and bureaucrats in the infinitely infuriating and famously overwhelmed U.S. There are the children who fight the love that is handed to them, resolved not to be thrown away again, and would-be parents who find that it's far more difficult to build dreams and families than adoption pamphlets would suggest.
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