Notes
1 Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross, eds., Atlas of Global Christianity: 1910–2010 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 69.
2 “Global Hunger Declining, But Still Unacceptably High,” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Economic and Social Development Department, September 2010, http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al390e/al390e00.pdf.
3 “Global Hunger,” Bread for the World, http://www.bread.org/hunger/global.
4 “Invisible: Slavery Today,” National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, http://www.freedomcenter.org/slavery-today.
5 “Orphans in the World,” NumberOf.net, last verified February 14, 2010, http://www.numberof.net/orphans-in-the-world.
6 Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living, comps. Jaya Chalika and Edward Le Joly (New York: Penguin, 2000), 146.
7 On April 21, 1993, Peter Digre, then director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, testified in a congressional hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means that about half of the removals of children from their homes are due to poverty and not abuse. “‘It gets down to those very specific issues about a place to live, food on the table, medical care, and things like that,’ he explained, adding that ‘about half of the families are not physical abusers, not sexual abusers, not people with propensities to violence, but simply people who are struggling to keep ends pulled together and are eminently salvageable.’” Peter Digre’s statements are documented in the book President Clinton’s Budget Proposal for New Funding for Child Welfare Services Targeted for Family Support and Preservation Services: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 21, 1993 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1993), 87–88. These statements are also cited in “Los Angeles: The State Threatens a Takeover,” The Institute for Psychological Therapies, http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume10/j10_10_2.htm.
8 Troy Anderson,“Foster-Kid Cash Lure May Fade,” Los Angeles Daily News, February 16, 2004, http://familyrights.us/news/archive/troy_anderson/fosterkid_cash_lure_may_fade.htm.
9 This statistic appears in President Barack Obama’s press release on “National Foster Care Month,” posted at Administration for Children & Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, April 29, 2011, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/national-foster-care-month.
10 Cited by the Lynchburg Literacy Council, http://lynchburgliteracy.org/?page_id=14.
11 Ibid.
12 “Illiteracy: A National Crisis, United Way’s Role: A Report” (United Way of America, 1987), 9.
13 Cited by the Literacy Project Foundation, http://literacyprojectfoundation.org/community/statistics, and in Cynthia Brian’s Be the Star You Are! For Teens (Garden City, NY: Morgan James Publishing, 2010), 256.
14 “My So-Called Emancipation: From Foster Care to Homelessness for California Youth,” Human Rights Watch, May 20, 2010, page 1, http://www.cafosteringconnections.org/pdfs/My%20So-Called%20Emancipation-%20Human%20Rghts%20Watch.pdf.
15 Cited in “Foster Care by the Numbers,” Casey Family Programs, http://www.casey.org/newsroom/MediaKit/pdf/FosterCareByTheNumbers.pdf.
16 Bryce Christensen, “Fostering Confusion: What the ‘Foster-Care Crisis’ Really Means,” The Family in America Online Edition, The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society 15, no. 5 (May 2001), http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia_1505.htm.
17 “Developmental Issues for Young Children in Foster Care,” American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care, Pediatrics 106, no. 5 (November 1, 2000), http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/106/5/1145.full.html (accessed November 21, 2012), 1146, 1148. See also “Multiple Placements in Foster Care: Literature Review of Correlates and Predictors,” Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2004, http://cfrc.illinois.edu/pubs/lr_20040201_MultiplePlacementsInFosterCare.pdf (accessed November 21, 2012).
18 Human Rights Watch interview with Phillip O., Whittier, age 22, April 24, 2006, quoted in “My So-Called Emancipation: From Foster Care to Homelessness for California Youth,” Human Rights Watch, May 20, 2010, page 46, http://www.cafosteringconnections.org/pdfs/My%20So-Called%20Emancipation-%20Human%20Rghts%20Watch.pdf.
19 “Foster Youth Education Initiative Releases Report on Improving Opportunities for Foster Youth,” National Center for Youth Law, http://www.youthlaw.org/child_welfare/foster_youth_education_initiative.
20 “United Friends of the Children: Long-Term Commitments Leading to Lasting Impacts,” Giving Local, January 28, 2011, http://give2network.wordpress.com/category/charities/child-welfare/united-friends-of-the-children. See also http://www.unitedfriends.org/about-ufc/faq.
21 “Co-Founders Wanted: MyFoco Provides Portal for Foster Youths (video),” posted February 21, 2011, http://www.centernetworks.com/myfoco-foster-youth-portal.
22 Mary Fairchild, “Christianity Today: General Statistics and Facts of Christianity,” About.com, http://christianity.about.com/od/denominations/p/christiantoday.htm.
23 According to http://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children, accessed November 21, 2012.
24 From an e-mail that the Dream Center received from DCFS on December 8, 2010.
26 Steven Ertelt, “New Planned Parenthood Report: Record Abortions Done in 2009,” LifeNews.com, posted February 23, 2011, http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/23/new-planned-parenthood-report-record-abortions-done-in-2009.
27 Michael Murray and James Wang, “Person of the Week: TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie,” ABC News, April 8, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/International/PersonOfWeek/person-week-toms-shoes-founder-blake-mycoskie/story?id=13331473.
28 “Charity: Water,” Focusing Philanthropy, http://www.focusingphilanthropy.org/registryitem.asp?ID=784&title=charity:%20water.
30 “Teaching Beyond Words,” Charisma Magazine, http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/devotionals/live-extraordinarily?view=article&id=15026:teaching-beyond-words&catid=1505.
31 “Our History,” Convoy of Hope, http://www.convoyofhope.org/go/who/our_history.
32 “The Changing Nature of Teen Addiction and Self-Harming,” Presentation Solutions, May 10, 2011, http://presentationsolutions.org/2011/05/10/nancy-alcorn/.
33 “Our Solution,” The A21 Campaign: Abolishing Injustice in the 21st Century, http://www.thea21campaign.org/our-solution.php.
34 For more information, see Matthew Barnett, The Cause within You (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2011), http://thecausewithinyou.com.