http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-23-katrina-foster-care_N.htm
[quote]Katrina rips up the few roots foster kids had
By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
NEW ORLEANS — Shine White shuttled through nearly 20 foster homes in the decade before he landed in the care of Greg and Gretta Fortenberry. With their support, he tested into a top magnet high school and made the honor roll. With their trust, he became a responsible member of the household and a mentor to the couple’s other foster kids.
“It got to the point where I was calling them Mom and Dad,” says Shine, 17. “We were like a family.”
Then came Hurricane Katrina.
The Fortenberrys fled to Texas with Shine, three other foster children and their own two kids. They spent six months in Nebraska before they all returned to New Orleans. But life in the Big Easy was stressful, and the couple decided to give up being foster parents.
“My younger son eventually came to us and said he just wanted to be with his family. I’d always said that once my kids got tired of us (foster parenting), we’d let it go,” Greg Fortenberry says. “It was a tough decision, especially with Shine. But we’d done our turn.”[/quote]