Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story
Without signing the documents that would permit adoption, young Theresa Cameron's mother placed her little daughter under the aegis of Catholic Charities, and then the mother vanished forever.\ During the 1960s and 1970s this abandoned, unadoptable child was shuttled through foster homes in the vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y. Insecure, desolate, and frightened, she was rotated through group homes and the houses of alien families, the victim of religious hypocrisy, racial prejudice, and insult.\...
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An African American woman's unblinking look at her troubled years as an unwanted child in foster carePublishers WeeklyLeft as an infant with Catholic Charities in 1950s Buffalo, N.Y., Theresa Cameron was doomed to spend her childhood in foster homes because her mother never signed the final adoption papers. "Very little has been written to convey what children experience and how they feel living among strangers," notes Cameron, now a Harvard-trained urban planner and designer, in her introduction to Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story and even less about that of black children. Her ability to clearheadedly evaluate the morass of negative feelings without lapsing into sentimentality is one of the most affecting aspects of this memoir, which covers 19 years in foster care. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
AcknowledgmentsVIIIntroductionIXPart 11.In the Beginning52.On the Road: The First Foster Home I Remember83.Life with the Chester Family Goes On22Part 24.The Sea Widens: My New Life395.Riding the Waves506.Growing up with the Woodsons677.Getting By However I Could818.The End of the Line104Part 39.Bouncing Around as an Adolescent12910.Life Among the Nuns14111.Coming of Age in the Group Home15012.Farewell to Flourette Hall16613.Around and Around I Went17814.Staying Afloat19515.Just Another Stop Along the Way20116.Alone in California21217.Back in New York22418.It Finally Came to an End244Epilogue254
\ Publishers WeeklyLeft as an infant with Catholic Charities in 1950s Buffalo, N.Y., Theresa Cameron was doomed to spend her childhood in foster homes because her mother never signed the final adoption papers. "Very little has been written to convey what children experience and how they feel living among strangers," notes Cameron, now a Harvard-trained urban planner and designer, in her introduction to Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story and even less about that of black children. Her ability to clearheadedly evaluate the morass of negative feelings without lapsing into sentimentality is one of the most affecting aspects of this memoir, which covers 19 years in foster care. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.\ \
