Video
Testimony from Matti Rooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLE5aTDOvig
Books
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
Foster Stats
There are over 33,000 children in foster care in the state of Texas.*
There are an additional 50,000 or more living in substitute care.*
There are less than 2,000 foster and/or adopt homes in Texas to care for these abused and neglected children.*
More than 200,000 reports of abuse or neglect are made each year in the state of Texas.*
In Texas alone, over 200 children die in one year due to injuries caused by abuse or neglect.*
*Statistics taken from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Data Book 2007.
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