One is a drug-addicted young mother; another a man who had been a nurse at a mental hospital.
This year, about 4,800 babies will be born to drug-addicted mothers, making them almost certain candidates for foster care.
A baby, born to a drug-addicted mother, had been left in a hospital restroom.
Smith's memoir describes growing up in Hawaii with a drug-addicted mother.
A drug-addicted mother may worry her child will be put in foster care.
Educational efforts have obviously not been enough to approach the problem of the drug-addicted mother.
What is needed are intensive efforts to develop treatment programs for drug-addicted mothers during pregnancy.
"Sometimes the kids are being chased by a father, or a drug-addicted mother," he said.
Never mind that she'd taken in her grandson to save him from a drug-addicted mother.
Forty percent, or about 920, were born to drug-addicted mothers.