He Grew Up a ‘Throwaway Kid’
With foster care reform and the new federal “Fostering the Future” executive order back in the headlines, I’d like to offer you R. B. Mitchell, author of the memoir Castaway Kid, for interview consideration. Rob is one of the last “lifers” raised in an American orphanage—abandoned by his parents as a small child—and has spent decades speaking up for orphans, foster youth, and at‑risk kids across the U.S. and internationally.
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