![]() Teenagers find the system especially difficult wanted by few or kicked out of homes along the way, many of them end up spending the years until emancipation inside group homes, the dorms for the battered and beaten. Not that this isn't fertile ground for heartbreak - for every story about a child being placed with a loving and nurturing family, there are many more accounts of violent abuse and squalid living conditions. In lesser supply are narratives about what happens to stray children once they leave the group system and filter into foster homes. There is no shortage of parentless characters in literature - one need only look to Dickens to find enough foundlings to fill an orphanage. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Language Of Flowers Subtitle A Novel Author Vanessa Diffenbaugh ![]()
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