Through this book you will look in the life of a foster child. The insight you gain from looking through the eyes of a foster child. This boy started his life in the foster care system as a baby and he aged out. You will feel the regression that this child endured growing up in the system. How he dealt with the rejection of society, foster parents, birth parents, and siblings. You will start the journey with a young boy that has no idea what a family is, and you will follow the hard road to a life as a husband and a father. You will experience the pain of the death of a foster brother that he grew close to and understand how the system did not prepare him to live as a productive adult. You will also go with him on the journey to find information on himself and finding his mother. It is based on the Europe Child Protective Services where this child was in care. The experiences that this foster child lived through and endured can be the face of any child in foster care system with no regard to the country or state.

This is a very informational book that can give you great insight if you are foster parenting or planning to become a foster parent. You fully understand that you have so much to teach the foster children that come into your home even if they are only with you a short period of time. In the end we as foster parents have to give them as many skills as possible that they will need when they will be on their own. You can get a glimpse of the pain that foster care can inflict on a child. You may want to have a box of tissues handy and ready.

"Nobody’s Child" By John Robinson with Brenda Sloggett


“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen