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On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State’s foster-care system—a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children. Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair is the story o

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Author

Susan Sheehan; Sylvia Frumpkin; Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679754503

Category

social science

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Medical

Rating

3.82 / 5 (805 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14