“Lives of America’s Foster Children” by Vanessa Roth & 13/WNET, New York, aired on PBS | 1999 duPont-Columbia Award Winner

This riveting hour by a social worker making her first documentary is a compassionate look at the troubled system of foster care in New York City. With the intimacy of a hand-held camera, the program examines the lives of a brother and sister, their birth parents and their foster home. It painfully demonstrates how difficult it is for society to make the choice between birth parents and foster care.