“Amy, what do you think about adopting children from foster care?”
Well since you asked, I happen to have my soapbox sitting… right… here.
Ahem.
I’ll never forget when a fellow reporter and I were working in the edit bay at my news station, and she said, “Why would anyone adopt a foster child? They have so much baggage.” I was working on my weekly story profiling a foster child.
Trying to force the blood to drain from my cheeks, I tried to explain it’s not their fault they’re in foster care; they’re paying for someone else’s mistakes. Plus, I think an adoptive family’s job isn’t to “fix” a child, but to give them the best possible chance at life, from that point forward.
And you know what? When it comes down to it, they’re just kids.
That message pretty much sums up the Heart Gallery of Central Texas: a traveling art exhibit featuring portraits of area foster children. This is the video I produced for this, the fifth year, of the Heart Gallery. Hope you saved a kleenex for me.
(Oh, and special thanks to Naomi Hamm for the music!)
One Comment
11:35 am
your awesome. and so creative.