Broken Boy: Surviving Foster Care and Giving Back to the System That Stole My Childhood

by GV Medeiros

By any estimation, Gino Medeiros should have become a statistic.Plunged into the broken foster care system of the 1970s at the age of five, Gino would spend the next fifteen years bouncing from one home to the next, unwanted and unloved, or so it seemed. He was convinced that he would die homeless and alone, just another life that slipped through the cracks. But one can never underestimate the power of kindness…A coming-of-age tale first witnessed through the eyes of a child and then a young gay man, "Broken Boy" is the true story of Gino's journey through foster care to the heart of a loving family. Part manual for prospective foster parents, part emotional exploration of the value of family, it is filled with hard-won lessons of kindness, cruelty, redemption, and the ultimate triumph of unconditional love.

198 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2024

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compelling, enlightening, heartbreaking. You’re going to feel all the feelings in this read. Well written memoir and great insights to our foster care system. Just one sad tale of how we have treated children in the foster care system under the guise of protecting them. Picked it up and couldn’t put it down until I finished.