The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
by
Nina Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it...