“At the age of 10, I received one last hug from my mother — a hug I wished would take me to magical places I read about in storybooks. Instead, she walked out of the office in tears. I never saw my mother again.” This was part of 19-year-old Jaydan Martinez’s heart-wrenching story of how he entered Texas’s foster care system at last week’s House Ways and Means roundtable on Capitol Hill.
Twenty-one-year-old Joselyn Fetting likewise described her painful experience, testifying, “I entered foster care at 12 alongside my younger siblings after losing my parents.” She went on to say, “I carried the emotional weight of being the oldest. To stay connected with my younger siblings, I used to pay my friends for rides to see them.”
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