Ashley Rhodes-Courter author of “Three More Words” a memoir about foster care and adoption

By Joseph Cooper,

Published July 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

07/20/15- On Monday’s Topical Currentswe visit with a child welfare advocate who started her work early: at age 14.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter entered Florida’s foster care system at age three. She was shuttled between 14 foster homes—some abusive--before adoption at age 12. She’s written two remarkable memoirs and is in the forefront of the child welfare movement. We’ll hear her story Monday, at 1pm.

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