Other sources
“Some experts estimate that 45 percent of those leaving foster care become homeless within a year.” –www.liftingtheveil.org

“In a new phenomenon compared with past surveys, almost 11 percent of the youths said they were homeless and living on the streets before coming to shelters.”-www.liftingtheveil.org

Interview
I have known Daniel Simmons since I was a first year student in high school, in the town of Corona, CA. He’s a tall (about 6’3”, he revealed), slightly overweight, Mexican-American wearing black, horn-rimmed glasses, jeans, and a red and blue Aeropostale shirt, with his washed out, green Army style jacket strung across the back of his chair. Diet Coke and crepe sitting on the table, I sat across from him, laptop at hand. I sat down with Danny and we discussed what it was like to grow up in a foster home. Now, something you must understand is that Danny was not a foster child, but he lived in a home which was always accumulating more children. Having to meet and entertain new children all the time, I would think, would have a drastic impact on the way Danny was raised and the certain parental aspects that arise from growing up in a foster home. It’s a brisk, Tuesday morning in the Crossroads, chilly outside, but warmer inside by the heat the bodies are releasing.

Questions 1. Do you remember the first child that came and stayed with your family, when your home first started as a foster home?
-“Not really. It’s been so long, ya know? To really know the answer to that question, you would have to go way back in my past,” he says with a laugh. “I have vague memories of playing with children that I knew were not part of my family, but as a child I never really applied much thought to the idea that maybe there were more kids living in my house than me and my sister.”
2. How were you finally introduced to the conclusion that you