Unveiling Forgotten Shadows: The Disturbing Truth Behind America’s Orphan Crisis in Kristen Martin’s Latest Exposé
Kristen Martin understands this narrative well, not just through her research, but because her own story differs markedly from these sunny fictions. Martin’s mother died of lung cancer when she was 12, followed two years later by her father’s fallout from his prostate cancer. At 14, Martin and her brother were orphans. Unlike the children whose circumstances she researches and presents in this book, she and her brother were cared for by family, finished high school, and went to college. Though they could not be protected from the sharp blade of grief, they were spared the vagaries of the foster care system.
