When Family Steps Up

  • Valarie Edwards

A look at how some kinship families are faring as National Kinship Awareness Month gets underway. Twelve years ago, life changed for 68-year-old Danny Baker, and his 67-year-old wife Angie, when their daughter-in-law and granddaughter, McKenna — now 14, moved in. The northeast Georgia couple looked forward to traveling the world during their retirement years. […]

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Valarie Edwards

Valarie Edwards is the assistant editor for Fostering Families Today. She and her sisters spent nearly a dozen years in foster care. Inspired by her daughter’s volunteerism, Edwards is a CASA and believes in mentoring youth in care. Nominated for an Emmy and the recipient of numerous journalism awards, Edwards is an alum of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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