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A Kansas grandmother couldn’t adopt her grandchild. The case points to larger issues in foster care

Takeaways: Mindy Mathes was thrilled when a foster agency picked her and her husband to adopt their granddaughter. The girl had been weathering the chaos of the Kansas foster care system, living in multiple homes before finding people to call family.  At the Mathes home, she’d have stuffed animals — unicorns and a beloved Grinch […]