Rosie's Story: For The Sake Of Children

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In the Primetime Thursday special Rosie’s Story: For the Sake of the Children, led by ABC news anchor Diane Sawyer, she poses the question “Who do you think is a good parent for a child?”. Roger Croteau and Steven Lofton, both pediatric nurses in Florida’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, soon became American foster parents of HIV and AIDS positive children. Croteau and Lofton, a homosexual gay couple, adopted five HIV and AIDS positive children; Frank, AIDS, Tracy, HIV, Bert, HIV, and brothers Wayne and Ernie, both HIV positive. The children were essentially unwanted by society, as they were extremely disease ridden despite only being children. Bert, being under the constant care and love of Croteau and Lofton with the help of medication, experienced a seroreversion which…show more content…
The state of Florida then started to place Bert within a heterosexual, straight, family; regardless of the fact that Croteau and Lofton have been the only family that Bert has known since he was only nine weeks old. The couple, in 1999, tried the district court, but their case was unable to be heard. The couple fought to keep Bert as their child, and tried the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to assist their case, and surprisingly comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell wanted to help their case as well. Often times, foster children are moved around from home to home several times over the course of their life, and more often than not lose hope over finding a family that will love and care for them, and have to depend upon themselves at such young ages. Moreover, foster children are abused from their biological or even their foster care parents, and within the state of Florida foster children are twice as likely to be abused in the foster care

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