Foster Care in Popular Culture
Fictional characters who have been in foster care have been represented in a variety of mass entertainment media throughout the years including the following television shows:
- Bones.
- Secret Life of the American Teenager'
- Leverage'.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Money Train
- Hustle (TV series)
- Life Unexpected
- Roswell (TV series)
- The Story of Tracy Beaker
- The Lying Game
- Coronation Street
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Famous former foster children:
- Allison Anders
- Alonzo Mourning
- Babe Ruth
- Eddie Murphy
- Eriq La Salle
- Esai Morales
- Marilyn Monroe
- Victoria Rowell
- Wayne Dyer
- Leland Chapman
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