Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some 13,500 found families. That same year more than 9,000 couples and singles adopted children from overseas. Another 25,000 pursued and found that most hotly sought commodity in the adoption marketplace: healthy white American babies...
...largest number spend years carting their toothbrush and T shirts from one foster home to the next, at each stop growing less hopeful, less open to the exchange of affection and trust that comes naturally to most children. "If you've got a kid who is 16 and has been in ten foster homes, you can't imagine the devastation," says Catherine Tracy, chief deputy of children's services for Los Angeles County...
Sophomore Robert Kincade (77) and Captain Mike Foster (78) earned the trip to Bethpage by finishing...
...This was the first time in a couple of years that Harvard players have qualified," Foster said...
...played better than I expected," Foster said. "Last year we lost team Captain Terry Murray to graduation and I was unsure about this year's returning talent. But it was obvious that the guys worked hard over the summer...