Looking Into Foster Care through the Foster Parent Diary

Illustration by Abigail Gray Swartz

Meghan Moravcik Walbert writes for The New York Times series “Foster Parent Diary,” which chronicles her experience being a foster parent to a 4 year old boy. Walbert calls her foster child “BlueJay,” to protect his privacy, as she writes about the joy and heartbreak that accompanies her family’s journey. BlueJay is just one of the approximately 800,000 children that encounter the foster care system every year in America. Walbert lets us see into her life and BlueJay’s, which is currently up in the air, as the family is unsure if he will continue to live with them. Read the latest installment: http://goo.gl/DU8zlv

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