A new book investigates the role that the child-welfare system played in the murders of six adopted kids.
, a photograph from one of many demonstrations that followed nationwide, in Portland, Oregon, was shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook. The image got writeups inand provided fodder for a cold-open skit on “Saturday Night Live.” The photographer, Johnny Nguyen, said that his picture “spread the message of coming together despite our differences.” Brian Williams, then an NBC News anchor, told viewers, “What the world needs now might just be what we see in this photo.
Three and a half years after the protest in Portland, Jennifer Hart intentionally drove her S.U.V. off a strip of the Pacific Coast Highway, in northern California, down a hundred-foot drop into the ocean. Inside were Sarah and the couple’s six adopted Black children: Devonte and his biological siblings Jeremiah and Ciera; and another set of biological siblings, Markis, Hannah, and Abigail.
The first police report logging suspicion of child abuse against the Harts dated to 2008, two years after they adopted their first three children; Hannah, then six, told a teacher that Jennifer had beaten her with a belt. Incredibly, the Harts’ adoption of Devonte, Jeremiah, and Ciera proceeded apace, while Celestine’s case to regain custody of them dragged on for two more years.
Any foster-care network is, by its nature, at odds with itself: designed to help families stay together and to help families get taken apart. Foster care has, unquestionably, extracted many children from abusive situations and helped to forge new, happy homes where they find safety and unconditional love. But, as Dorothy Roberts argues in her 2022 book “
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