We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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Book
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xiv, 297 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).
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"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"--,Provided by publisher.
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On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian became the first reporter to put the children's birth families at the center of the story. We follow the author as she runs up against the intransigence of a state agency that removes tens of thousands of kids from homes each year in the name of child welfare, while often failing to consider alternatives. Her reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as children of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America's most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.
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Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction winner

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Asgarian, R. (2023). We were once a family: a story of love, death, and child removal in America (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Asgarian, Roxanna, 1987-. 2023. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Asgarian, Roxanna, 1987-. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Asgarian, Roxanna. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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