19-04-2016 16:00 via alaskapublic.org

Changing what it means to be a foster parent

Laura Ingham poses with portraits of her kids. (Hillman/KSKA)Slade Martin was in foster care for 14 years. He said it wasn’t easy because people make a lot of negative assumptions about foster kids.
“They’re gonna steal, they’re gonna be a bad influence on the younger kids, they’re gonna get pregnant or get someone pregnant. They’re gonna be on drugs. They’re not gonna go to school.”
Sometimes he and other kids misbehaved because they felt like the
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