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...images were so arresting for Alasdair Foster, director of Sydney's Australian Centre for Photography, that he decided to base an exhibition around them. "It set me thinking about the fact that we don't talk much about our nearest neighbors," says Foster. While Blackmore's 25 startling yet often poetic images, of scenes from sing sings to AIDS wards, provide a social context for the raskols in "PNG" (the show opens this week), it is Dupont's 30 portraits that are more likely to challenge the way Australians see their neighbors. As well as flaunting hand-made guns...
...teens often need as much encouragement and counseling as the prospective parents do. Project Teen Plus, a program created by the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition of Greater St. Louis, Mo., provides a support group to help teenagers process their fears and doubts about adoption. "Many have lived in institutions so long, they have no idea what life in a family is like," says Melanie Sheetz, executive director of the coalition. She accompanies girls to a meal each Sunday with a foster mom, so they can learn what to expect...
Teens often feel ambivalent about joining a new family. "It's hard to believe an adult will love and protect you when that hasn't been your experience," says Marti Wiser, Idaho's Wednesday's Child coordinator. Besides the fear of personal rejection, many teens in foster care are worried that being adopted amounts to a rejection of their birth family--a painful dilemma. Gary Mallon, an adoption expert at the Hunter College School of Social Work, suggests "unpacking the no"--finding out what's behind a teenager's resistance--and offering the option of remaining in touch with birth...
Once a match is made, there will probably be some rough sledding for families who adopt adolescents with the kind of past that landed them in foster care. No one knows that better than Fonda Fantroy, a Head Start administrator in St. Louis who has adopted five teens--two sets of siblings from families with a history of sexual abuse and alcoholism. "It's not always fun," says Fantroy, 50. "Every Saturday I'm in therapy with one of my kids." Fantroy, who is single and also has a biological child, says she likes the challenge of raising teenagers: "There...
...most states, adoptive parents receive subsidies similar to foster-care allowances. Fantroy, for instance, gets $300 a month for each child. In addition, foster kids normally have Medicaid coverage that continues, even after adoption, until they...