KERA's Think

Is the state too quick to remove children from their families?


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When a murder-suicide of parents and six children occurred in California, questions about the foster care and adoption system were raised. Journalist Roxanna Asgarian joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the family that adopted those children from the foster system in Texas, and why checks and balances on child removal from birth families aren’t as thorough as they should be. Her book is “We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.”
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