Maddox Phillips

I'm giving this story 5 stars because it's so well written but what absolutely infuriates me is that Leo's story isn't uncommon within the foster care system no matter where in the world you are. What infuriates me even further is that, for an agency that claims to be all about protecting children, they sure don't do a whole of protecting children. I do give the UK credit though because at least Leo went to a home that was properly equipped to handle his emotional problems and give him the tools he needed to learn to heal from his emotional trauma. Something needs to be done about the foster care system as a whole though, because leaving a child in the system to age out, knowing that he's never going to have parents or a family again, while forcing him to watch and participate in his younger siblings' adoption while being so utterly alone and devastated at the loss of the only family he has left, seems like the worst kind of torture you can inflict on a child who's already dealing with abandonment and rejection issues after his own mother decided she didn't want him anymore.