Category Archives: foster childhood

In Honor of Banned Books Week and Criticism of Ronald Federici’s Antipathy for Children’s Education

Day 591. Survivors found: 8
I’m a few days past the official week-long celebration, but it’s never a bad time to honor Banned Books, right?

For all the physical torture Conrad Boeding meted out – the suffocation, the beatings, the dehydration, the sleep deprivation – at least I was allowed to read books in the foster [...]

8 Things I Meant to Say 400 Days Ago

Day 401. Survivors found: 8
#1
I swear, I didn’t know that they did this to anyone else besides me. This brand of abuse happens behind closed doors in a therapist’s offifce, an area often shielded from the eyes of the law. You’re very young, alone and terrified. They purposefully isolate you to a such an extent [...]

AT Quack Ronald Federici attempts to shut down website of PPL (group that opposes child abuse and offers assistance to adoptees and foster kids)

Day 341. Survivors found: 6
I just received this today from Niels, a maintainer at Pound Pup Legacy, which is a group dedicated to exposing child abuse and advocating the needs of children who have been victimized by the more unsavory aspects of foster care and the adoption industry:
“Our site is temporarily shut down by our [...]

What Happened to Adam Herrman?

Day 318. Survivors found: 6
What with the nationwide search for abused adoptee Adam Herrman and all the Big Media buzz and perfunctory handwringing that goes with it, “Ungrateful Little Bastard” summed up the spectacle best:
“In the midst of all this coverage, what hasn’t come across my Google alerts yet is any type of oversight into [...]

Adam Hermann: Abused Adoptee Goes "Missing" For Ten Years, Parents Continue to Collect State Subsidies

Day 317. Survivors found: 6
Thanks to my readers and fellow bastards-in-arms who alerted me to the case of Adam Hermann. You people warm the cockles of my cold iron heart.

The story’s finally starting to break on Big Media; a nation-wide search for the boy is now going up.
Anyone with information about Adam Herrman is [...]