Earlier this year, when child-welfare officials in Santa Clara County, California, determined that two-year-old Jaxon Juarez’s biological father was unable to care for him, they placed him under the ...

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Marlena remembers the moment she decided to rescue her four sisters from foster care. The sixteen-year-old was back at a Mississippi children's shelter after caseworkers removed her from her mom’s ...