Essays on Relatives

Foster Care Foster care is a multifaceted service serving children who have experienced mistreatment or negligence, their birthparents and relatives, and their foster parents. Children in foster care may stay with unconnected foster parents, with kinsfolks, with families who plan to take on them, or…

Joaquin battles with sentiments of uncertainty since he is almost eighteen and has never been adopted by a family. He thinks about whether his biological mom ever visited him in foster care since his placement there or if she just abandoned him and forgot all…

It’s hard to pin point the moment when my relationship with my brother Benji morphed from one fraught with such acute sibling rivalry (that even the most intense workshops that my mother attended could not alleviate) to a loving, caring bond with so many mutual…