America's Youngest Hostages: The true cost of foster care and who's paying for it

In the turbulent 1960s, a renegade Capuchin friar set out to end the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. His actions inspired a community, sparked a movement and built an enduring grassroots organization. For over fifty years, the Downey Side adoption agency has been rescuing our neediest children from the nation's blighted foster care system.

This David versus Goliath story continues today. America's Youngest Hostages looks inside the system from the points of view of social workers, parents and foster children themselves. With half a million children held hostage by a system designed to perpetuate itself, this book is a call to action for ordinary Americans.

All proceeds from the sale of this book support Downey Side's mission of finding permanent families for hard-to-place children in foster care.

Author: Ian Keldoulis
Publisher: Downey Side
Published: 06/27/2019
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780999657225

About the Author
Keldoulis, Ian: - Ian Keldoulis is an Australian writer who has lived in New York City for more than thirty years. He has written for PBS, Showtime, and publications including The New York Times and New York Magazine. Following a decade of working in advertising and marketing, Ian has focused once again on creative writing. In 2017, he published Toyz On Demand! a satiric novella about what happens to. Santa Claus when the North Pole melts. The feature-length screenplay version has placed in numerous screenwriting competitions globally. His hour-long dark comedy TV pilot, The Sinking of America, won Best Short Script in the 2016 Oaxaca Film Festival. He has also authored America's Youngest Hostages, a non-fiction book on the deplorable state of foster care in the USA on behalf of the Downey Side adoption agency.

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