Foster Home Quotes

“We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.”
― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue

“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.'
My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night.
'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.”
― Emily Andrews, The Finer Points of Becoming Machine

“Children are torn from their families for the flimsiest reasons, to wind up in white foster homes or orphanages. We also oppose the many attempts by white childless couples to adopt our kids. A child adopted out of its tribe is lost to us. Our kids are our greatest hope for the future and we cannot afford to lose them.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman