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Foster Care News - Dad Finds Daughter After 10 Years...In Foster Care

Friday November 25, 2005
An extremely sad story that highlights everything that can go wrong with the foster care system. A Dad loses touch with his four year old daughter and x-wife, hires private detectives to search, only to find his daughter ten years later in the foster care system. The child spent 10 years in 14 different foster homes and asked repeatedly about her father only to be told by social workers that they couldn’t find him. According to reports, this is difficult to believe since Dad is a registered voter, has a valid driver's license, is a Vietnam vet, and in the child support database for the district attorney's office. Dad and daughter have been reunited and spent Thanksgiving together this year.
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