A powerful book can send your mind in a hundred directions. After reading Before We Were Yours, it is hard not to think about the children behind the headlines, the files, and the systems. I have gone on and on about this book to my family and friends. The story is rooted in a painful chapter of history, but the question it raises still matters today: How many foster youth go missing each year in the US? The most honest answer is also frustrating: there is no single, clean na