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It Just Takes One: Foster Mother Mollie Jelks Raises 36 Foster Children

HuffPost | Erica Liepmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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In honor of Mother's Day, HuffPost Impact presents It Just Takes One, a series on children and the tutors, mentors, guardians and others who have ma...

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Repeating History Brings Progress

Christine James-Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Christine James-Brown

For the first time in decades, I see a real chance for the foster care system to sizably shrink, but only if we have serious dialogues that lead to needed child welfare decisions.

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