Claudia Rowe

Wards of the State (eBook, ePUB)

The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Told through the stories of eight former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalist Through the stories of eight former foster kids, Claudia Rowe illustrates exactly where, when, and how the system is failing the children that it parents. With accounts from psychologists to advocates to judges to the former foster children themselves, Wards of the State paves a road to reform by pulling back the curtain on the heartbreaking realities faced by children in a system that fails its most vulnerable youth. By the time Maryanne was 19 years old, she was on trial for murder. After having been in and out of the foster homes for nearly a decade, she was trafficked and assaulted, and ultimately pointed a gun at her assailant-and pulled the trigger. She fled, but with no family and no real friends, it didn't take long for the police to catch up with her. In court, the defense blamed not the traffickers, nor Maryanne, but the state itself-or rather, the foster care system, which turns the state into the parent of hundreds of thousands of children. The state of Washington didn't listen, but Claudia Rowe did. Wards of the State by journalist and author Claudia Rowe widens an eye-opening case from a true-crime lens to an exploration of the foster care-to-prison pipeline. The system is broken--hundreds of thousands of children every year leave America's $30 billion dollar foster care system and enter its prisons, where in some cases, 75 percent of inmates are former foster kids.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abrams
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647007485
• Artikelnr.: 72272723

Autorenporträt

Claudia Rowe has been writing about the hallways where kids and government clash for 25 years. Her reporting on racially skewed school discipline for The Seattle Times helped to change education laws in Washington State, and her coverage of Latino youth gangs was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Claudia has also written for the New York Times and Mother Jones. She was recently hired as a columnist focused on foster care, juvenile justice, and public education at the online news site Crosscut, where her work is seen by nearly 1 million viewers a month. She received the Washington State Book Award for her true crime memoir The Spider and the Fly, and published the successful Amazon Original Story Time Out in 2018.