Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family is a memoir of a gay dad fostering, losing, and eventually adopting siblings from the foster system. Along the way, the author highlights the dire lack of foster families, especially for older children, sibling groups, and in high-cost areas–as well as the maddening bureaucracy that makes it very challenging to be a foster parent, and to appropriately protect the very children the system is supposed to help.
The writing is middling and it’s clear that the author is quite privileged and has access to all kinds of workarounds, but the story carries through.
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