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Reviewed by Philip Van Heusen for Readers' Favorite
Pick any day of the year you want. Unfortunately, over 400,000 children are in foster care every day across the United States. This figure is appalling! Liane Joly in The Yellow Shirt shares some of the fears and frustrations felt by these precious children. If you are running a foster or adoptive home, read this book with your children while discussing the various issues and questions pointed out by Liane. If you are not a foster or adoptive parent, you will learn of the need to provide a stable and safe environment/forever home for these innocent children. While foster children struggle to explain what they have been through, this book is an excellent introduction to vital discussions. Liane gives a voice to these children. I would recommend this book even if you are not considering being involved in fostering.
Think for a minute about New Orleans. Roughly 450,000 people live in that famous city. Now, consider if every citizen in New Orleans was under 16. They have no home to call their own or parents there for them. The population of New Orleans is being shifted from home to home. We would not stand for such an atrocity. Come back to reality. This is the number of children in the US that have no home of their own and are shifted from home to home in the foster-care system. Can you imagine the issues and concerns these children have? You don’t have to guess. Liane Joly has written a must-read book that answers the questions. In The Yellow Shirt, the worries and fears of foster children are spelled out. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in becoming a foster or adoptive parent. I highly recommend it and suggest that adoption agencies provide copies for all the parents and children they work with.
