Claudia Rowe

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1,059 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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So there's this friend of the dad's, can't deal.

They...

Take Marianne to this other woman who she says was more geared toward teenagers, couldn't deal with a younger kid.

That person sort of shunts her over to a family where she lives for a year or so.

And then the aim of foster care, the stated aim, is permanence, which means you get adopted or you're going to your original parents.

Her parents' parental rights have been severed long before.

So the only avenue for her is adoption.

So from this family where she is being fostered, there's kind of several potential suitor families who are going to adopt Marianne.

And for one reason or another, nothing works out.

There are these things that

Nobody knows about adoption fairs where the kids are plunked down at a table with like arts and crafts and prospective families walk by.

Check them out.

And again, this was the same in the 19th century.

In that case, kids were like on stage performing a little ditty or a little poem or a little song.

Annie.

Literally Annie.

Literally.

And so by this point, Marianne is 12, which is sort of like your last chance.

If you're not adopted by that point, you're not a cute little kid anymore.

Families typically don't want an older kid.

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