@article{1355891,
      recid = {1355891},
      author = {Roth, Vanessa.},
      title = {Taken in the lives of America's foster children /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (57 min.).},
      year = {1999},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {Almost half a million children in the United States are in  foster care. These are young people abused or neglected in  their homes, or abandoned by their parents. For the last  150 years, social welfare agencies have placed children in  temporary foster care. What are the real long term  emotional and psychological costs of this policy? This  powerful film delves in to the lives of generations of  children who have grown up in foster care. The centerpiece  of the program documents a year in the life of  fifteen-year-old Jeffrey Smith and his five-year-old sister  Joanna after they are separated from their crack addicted  parents and three brothers. They now live in a two bedroom  apartment with a Spanish speaking foster mother who has  three children of her own. With the help of a guidance  counselor, they confront the pain of separation and the  difficult adjustment to a new home, neighborhood and  culture. To the disappointment of the children, their  parents fail to visit for several months. When they finally  do, it becomes evident that their mother is still using  drugs and fighting with their father. The hopes they had  for being reunited are further diminished when their father  is diagnosed with leukemia and their mother becomes  pregnant with her sixth child. Interwoven with the Smith s  story are the stories of four generations of adults who  were once in foster care. From eighty-year-old Bill and his  seventy-five year old brother Paul who lived in the Hebrew  Orphan Asylum in 1932 to twenty-year-old Tieysha who aged  out of foster care two years ago, they all feel they were  deprived of a normal childhood. This is an important film  for social workers, counselors, policy makers, and classes  in sociology and social policy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355891},
}