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“They Took Us Away From Each Other”: Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System <[link removed]> Across the country, unregulated “shadow” foster care is severing parents from children — who often wind up abandoned by the system that’s supposed to protect them. by Lizzie Presser, photography by Elinor Carucci for The New York Times

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