More than enough to go around

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Four-hundred forty-two thousand: That’s roughly the number of children in foster care in America. I was with a former foster child, now a mother herself, earlier this month. We were screening a short, powerful documentary called “I Lived on Parker Avenue,” about the challenges and rewards of adoption. Sarah Zagorski told us about growing up with her mother — fighting for food at 5 years old, among other challenges — eventually leading to her being placed in foster care in Louisiana for almost eight years, before finally finding a home with a loving adopted family. When you look at and hear from her now, it’s hard not to want to pray for the young Sarahs of today.

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