Foster Focus Magazine is currently featuring a photo and short descriptive gallery of former foster alum’s thoughts about what how it felt to be in foster care. Foster Focus Magazine is the only monthly magazine that is solely focused on the issues around foster care. Owner and Editor Chris Chmielewski, himself a former foster alum, founded the magazine in 2011.
Larry Adams, a former foster alum, writes in his introduction to the series,
Our childhood is almost impossible to trace. Our losses are etched upon our face and within our eyes, pain for which no penance can atone. How can we be forced to move and move from place to place, surrendering the love we
must embrace? We are enigma tangled up in a mystery. We are the lost puzzle pieces swept under the rug. We are a missing link in a chain of life. We have no roots. We are tumbleweed blown in the wind calling home where ever the breeze takes us. We are a chameleon changing colors to blend into our surroundings.
Contributors to the series feature 34 adults from various walks of life and with varying experiences. The series puts a face on the experience and quickly gets to the core emotions that those with the experience have felt.
To see all of the profiles on Foster Focus Magazine’s website, click on Foster Focus Magazine – What Care Feels Like.