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I entered foster care at age 12. I was in an abusive home and would act out so that I could get in trouble and hopefully get recognized so that...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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When I was 8, I would find myself in a peculiar but fateful point in my life when I would enter into the Arkansas Foster Care system through child endangerment...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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Often the world we live in is something that no one would expect for it to be. When we are born we do not get a choice as to who...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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I like to tell myself, that not everyone gets their traditional story. My parents weren’t fit to be parents or even to be part of the public eye at that...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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Who needs family during the holidays? Well, the answer is thousands of children in the American foster care system! Often, everyone takes something as simple as family for granted, that...

Family relationships
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Tiffany Haddish is an American comedian and actress who also experienced foster care. She currently stars in the comedy "The Carmichael Show" and starred in the movie "Girls Trip". At...

Family relationships
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Where is the love for the holidays? Being in foster care, I never felt love, or the reason for the love, around the holidays. Having grown up in care, I...

Family relationships
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Lacey Baker started skateboarding a few months after she started walking. She was two, briefly living in foster care in Southern California, and couldn't stop staring at the half-pipe set...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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The Human Rights Campaign and researchers at the University of Connecticut are working together on a national online survey of LGBTQ young people. They want to hear your views about...

LGBTQ+ & Two-Spirit youth
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You are going to get a sneak at my journey of the foster homes that impacted me the most. The foster care system has made me who I am today...

Family relationships