The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Nina Bernstein

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Nina Bernstein

498 pages digital 2001

4 editions

nonfiction history sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
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IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s inequities....

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