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This article from NPR accompanies a brief radio segment highlighting the difficulties faced by families with children in foster care during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the suspension of in-person visits between parents and their children. "I'm usually feeding her, singing to her, playing with her, we were bonding," said one mother, Jessica, of her visits with her two year-old daughter in foster care. "It's like [the virus] snatched it away from me…
In this segment for National Public Radio (NPR), a parent of a child in foster care and several child welfare professionals describe how they are navigating in-person visits, emergency removals and foster placements in the time of the COVD-19 pandemic. Jessica, a mother whose daughter is in foster care and who is supposed to have overnight visits with her daughter two nights a week says "I'm usually, like, you know, feeding her, singing to her, playing with her, we're bonding really good, and it's like it snatched it away from me, this whole virus and being away from her now."
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