Society would rather not see them. Like people in prison, the foster care system makes hundreds of thousands of kids invisible. And the system is doing them great damage for life. On this show, author and foster care, juvenile justice, and public education reporter and editorial board member of the Seattle Times, Claudia Rowe sheds light into this intentionally hidden suibject in her new book Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care. The system makes kids disconnected, all bonds severed. She calls what she has personally witnessed a foster care-to-prison pipeline.