Foster Mom

Middle-aged successful Francine and her physician husband accidentally get involved with an inner city family whose life is ruined by drugs. Suicide death and disappointment overwhelm their optimism.</p>Despite their best efforts they achieve only modest success with two of the children--a teen-age boy who has attachment disorder and becomes an addict himself and a younger girl who acts out to get attention. A probing look at the foster care system the effects of crack addiction the influence of intervention at various stages of a child's life and the failure of the liberal ideal.