Foster Care in Popular Culture
Fictional characters who have been in foster care have been represented in a variety of mass entertainment media throughout the years including the following television shows:
- Bones.
- Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- Leverage'.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Money Train
- Hustle (TV series)
- Life Unexpected
- Roswell (TV series)
- The Story of Tracy Beaker
- The Lying Game
- Coronation Street
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Famous former foster children:
- Allison Anders
- Alonzo Mourning
- Babe Ruth
- Eddie Murphy
- Eriq La Salle
- Esai Morales
- Marilyn Monroe
- Victoria Rowell
- Wayne Dyer
- Leland Chapman
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Famous quotes containing the words foster, care, popular and/or culture:
“Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
“Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”
—Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)