![]() ![]() While in stable foster homes, she still felt the constant ache for her mother. Many of the nineteen foster parents Ashley encountered were not abusive, however. There she and other foster children experienced hunger, shame, and unsanitary living conditions. At the Mosses’ home, discipline was often harsh or unusual, including children being forced to drink hot sauce. In the nine years between, Ashley experienced frustration and confusion about being taken, chaos in overcrowded foster homes, even neglect and abuse in one particular family. Three Little Words: A Memoir, Ashley Rhodes-Courter, Atheneum, 2008, 320 pages, $17.99 hardcover, $9.99 paperback.Īshley Rhodes-Courter dedicated her memoir about her journey from foster care into adoption to the “more than half million American children who are still waiting for safe, permanent homes.” She describes the fear and bewilderment of being taken from her young mother at less than four years of age, followed by the constant parade of caseworkers and “so-called mothers” that led up to her wary entry into an adoptive home at age twelve. Three Little Words: A Memoir,Ashley Rhodes-Courter ![]()
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