![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a sobering chronicle, and Rhodes-Courter is candid about her own behaviors and attitudes as well as her experiences, never overdramatizing herself as a wounded innocent, just a real kid who's understandably troubled by her experiences. Though settling into a new family wasn't easy, Ashley ultimately discovered security with the Courters, and she has since become an advocate for children in care. Trying to stay afloat amid occasional longed-for visits from her unreliable mother, a blend of irritation with and need for her younger brother, a sustained stay in an abusive foster home, and a high-speed revolving door of case workers and other officials, she finally acquired a champion in her court-appointed advocate and eventually found an adoptive home with the Courter family. ![]() Ashley Rhodes was, with her younger half-brother, removed from her mother's home by Florida's Department of Children's Services when she was three, and she spent the subsequent nine years bouncing from foster home to foster home to relative to institution and around again. ![]()
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