Tracing the history of child care and child endangerment, pointing out that beating and even executing children for disobedience used to be legal, it would seem we have come a long way towards protecting our lost kids. Starting from a basic question-who has the right to keep a child, the biological parent or the parent who actually offers food and shelter?-Beam soon found many more questions and few real answers. In this sad, searching, scathing reportage by writer Chris Beam, the foster care system comes into focus, with all its flaws magnified. "We won't be taking any more teenagers." is the sad conclusion reached by one foster father who, with his wife and their trust in the goodness of people, had fostered one child too many.
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care Book review: Cris Beam's *To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care*
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