Claudia Rowe

More kind words for WARDS OF THE STATE. Thank you, @LarissaMacFarqu and @ABRAMSbooks! WARDS is out on May 20. Book launch info coming soon.

"The foster care system ejects thousands of young people every year who have spotty educations, virtually no job skills, no family support, nothing." WARDS OF THE STATE author @RoweReport on @KDABurtCohen: bit.ly/4475QqH @ABRAMSbooks

"If I knew why I did it, I wouldn't be in here," a #serial killer told me when I interviewed him at #Attica prison. That conversation came to mind after the #BryanKohberger sentencing last week. share.google/hKZyF997CMw3fy…

Yes, #foster care has harmed thousands of kids. Those I interviewed for this book say the solution isn't ending foster care, but radically changing it.

Missing Person Alert.

Love this interview with @eddrickshow about WARDS OF THE STATE because he asks about one of the main reasons I wrote the book: to convey some of the psychological realities of being a #foster child. Have a listen!

"I really want readers to feel what it is like to be that kid in foster care." Watch @RoweReport on the @eddrickshow discussing why she wrote her book, WARDS OF THE STATE: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care. bit.ly/4kFfA0d @ABRAMSbooks

Thanks to @ABRAMSbooks for believing. And most of all, to the #foster youth who shared their lives.

Interest in WARDS OF THE STATE is building because people get it: Foster care is an invisible system with outcomes that affect us all. Check out this fantastic interview with @hereandnowrobin on "Here & Now!" wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

"They murdered the CDC, defunded FEMA, gutted NOAA, fired vaccine experts, and declared war on facts — and now they’re standing in the ashes, shrugging like, “Gee, how’d all these dead kids get here?” johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/make-america…

Rowe asks a question that many journalists and academics avoid: If children have been abused for years and are then removed, how do we know what caused them to be angry or disturbed or violent? Was it foster care or what came before it? wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via @WSJBooks @AEI

WOW! The Wall Street Journal reviewed WARDS OF THE STATE. "Ms. Rowe asks a question that many journalists and academics avoid." Why do so many kids in our child welfare system end up locked up? Is it because of the system itself? bit.ly/4eKnrrZ @WSJ @ABRAMSbooks

"WARDS OF THE STATE offers moving profiles of former foster youth whose acts have landed them in prison....@RoweReport, a journalist, suggests that our child-welfare system is at least in part, even mostly, to blame for their crimes." bit.ly/4eKnrrZ @WSJ @ABRAMSbooks

Listen to @RoweReport on @FarFlungPhil's The Deep Dive discussing her book, WARDS OF THE STATE: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care. Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/44mkri7 Spotify: bit.ly/44FwEgy

WARDS OF THE STATE is starting a conversation we need to have about the enormous number of foster kids who end up locked up. Have a listen to my chat with @FarFlungPhil on The Deep Dive!

At their best, true crime stories help us understand motivation for acts that seem incomprehensible. That's what WARDS OF THE STATE does, showing the internal reality of foster kids. Have a listen!

Curious about foster care but don't want to read about it? Listen instead to the audio book of WARDS OF THE STATE!

"Human beings are designed to develop through connections and foster care has been built to cut off connections. That's why the system is broken." @RoweReport on @WICN905's The Public Eye talking WARDS OF THE STATE: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care bit.ly/3I92X07

Award-winning journalist @RoweReport presents a stirring indictment of the American foster care system. Hear the poignant stories of eight former foster kids in #WardsOfTheState––Available now. bit.ly/4dtqWCP

The first person legally executed in WY was a 17 yr old foster child, in 1892. Today, 20-25% of prison inmates are "alumni" of foster care. Clearly, we are doing something wrong.

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