Truth Be Told: A Foster Child's Recolletion

With a mother in and out of her life, and eight possible men being her father, Tashima Dukes was forced to grow up without any “real” parents. Even so, Psalms 27:10 says, “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Take her up indeed, did the Lord, despite enduring a childhood of abuse, neglect, and instability. Remarkably, by age 22, she earned a Master’s degree, and virtually by accident, landed a job working for a foster care agency she had once been part of as...