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100	1		_aAsgarian, Roxanna, _d1987- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWe were once a family : _ba story of love, death, and child removal in America / _cRoxanna Asgarian.
246	3	0	_aStory of love, death, and child removal in America
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axiv, 297 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).
505	0		_aPreface -- Prologue -- "Every time I see you, you take me away" -- A safe place -- The good ol' boys club -- Big-time small-time living -- Across state lines -- "If not us, who?" -- Playing the food card -- "Is it because I'm bad?" -- Dichotomy -- "Kiss your mama" -- "The last little hope I had" -- "Why didn't they call me?" -- "Something I could love unconditionally" -- "Death at the hands of another" -- Best interests of the child -- A final resting place -- Epilogue.
520			_a"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children--and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aOn March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian became the first reporter to put the children's birth families at the center of the story. We follow the author as she runs up against the intransigence of a state agency that removes tens of thousands of kids from homes each year in the name of child welfare, while often failing to consider alternatives. Her reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as children of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America's most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.
650		0	_aMurder-suicide _zUnited States.
650		0	_aChildren _xCrimes against _zUnited States. _9232132
650		0	_aChildren _xInstitutional care _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAdopted children _xCrimes against _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAfrican American children. _9156232
650		0	_aInterracial adoption _zUnited States. _974261
650		0	_aFoster children _xCare _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFoster home care _zUnited States. _9107730
655		7	_aTrue crime stories. _2lcgft _99557
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