Pandemic piles new pressures on foster children, caretakers

Elana Schor - Associated Press

"Foster children have enormous challenges even in the best of times. The coronavirus pandemic threatens them with even greater turmoil, isolating them from adult supervisors and friends and making it harder to move on to new lives — either with biological or adoptive families, or as newly independent adults," says this article from the Associated Press. The article includes an interview with a young woman, Jessica Overstreet, who grew up in foster care in the U.S. "Overstreet fears the new reality brought by the COVID-19 pandemic has made some foster kids’ already difficult situations '100 times worse.'”