Talk Categories: Social Sciences

Your fairytales are hurting our foster kids

Speaker: Hilary Crowley

Talk Year: 2025

Talk Category: Children, Parenting, Social Sciences

From Annie to Spider-Man to Peter Pan, pop culture loves the scrappy orphan who beats the odds. But what if these stories—meant to inspire—are actually harming the very kids they claim to uplift?

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