“Who wouldn’t want to call me ‘son’ now?”

A courageous and brilliantly successful young man who spent his life in foster care, finally aging out at age 18 without a family, reflects on the anguish of never being wanted. “I often wondered, when I was placed in a home, why someone would always give me back?”

Click here to view this powerful video from Shane Salter, someone who triumphed over the odds but still carries the pain of a childhood and adolescence without a caring adult.

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