5/24/2023 0 Comments To the End of June by Cris Beam![]() ![]() This hour, On Point: confronting America’s foster care system. “And yet nobody,” she writes, “not the kids, not the foster or biological parents, not the social workers, the administrators, the politicians, the policy experts – thinks the system is working.” That costs nearly 20 billion dollars annually. It's a world that manages about 400,000 children a year. ![]() Her exploration was a daunting task, but Beam had a personal investment – she’s a foster mother and she wanted to make sense of the world she was part of. ![]() In her new book, "To The End of June," author Cris Beam casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system. We get inside America’s foster care system to see what it’s doing and not doing, for and to the children there. Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 9 years old. ![]()
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