domestic relations courts

"Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved"--Back cover.

Gilbert and his big sister Rachel must go to foster care while their mother is in rehab, and meet a lot of adults appointed to help them including a caseworker, foster parents, foster brothers and sisters, a lawyer, therapist, a judge, and their own court appointed special advocate.

Examines the history and evolution of family court, as well as the continuing debate over the treatment of juveniles in the U.S. legal system.