Washington Post Article 7/31/10 - by Donna St. George

• Md. couple bonds with teen as interest grows in adopting older foster children

Once there was the idea of a child. Now there is Frenice: a middle-schooler who steeled her way through 14 foster homes before moving last summer to a comfortable Prince George's County neighborhood, where Sharon and Michael Rollins embraced her as their daughter.

Washington Post Article 5/7/2010 - by Donna St. George

• Former foster kid overcame odds, with help from many friends, to earn law degree 

When Jelani Freeman came home after school one day, his mother was gone. Eight years old, he waited, realizing as the hours passed that she would not be back. She was mentally ill and in need of treatment. His father was in prison. "I just knew that was it," he recalled. 

Washington Post Article 11/17/2009 - by Rebecca J. Ritzel 

• The funny thing about adoption? Oh, she can tell you.

Alison Larkin was 6 years old when she arrived at Sheridan School in Northwest Washington one morning with some news for her classmates. Grinning impishly, the freckled girl with auburn hair announced: "I'm adopted."