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u/obs0lescence · 6 pointsr/Ex_Foster

Seconding White Oleander....never saw the movie, but the book hit me hard.
I'm really curious about Foster Boy, which just came out this month.

Lots of animated movies. Off the top of my head....
When Marnie Was There - It's kind of trippy, but worth it. And the girl's anxieties about being a foster kid felt so true (like worrying that her FP was in it for the money), it made me wonder whether some feelings are just part of the foster care experience even when it occurs in a vastly different country and culture.
Approved for Adoption, which is also a series of graphic novels. It's more about adoption than foster care, but a lot of the themes and issues are the same. And it's another movie that shows what those experiences are like outside the US.
The Prince of Egypt is technically from before foster care existed (it's the story of Moses from the Bible) but that's more or less what it is: His mother, a slave, is unable to raise him; for his own safety he's brought up by another family. The focus is on Moses' conflicting loyalties to his adoptive family and his biological siblings, there's also a lot of subtext about class and privilege. I always found his identity issues so relatable. Growing up, I had a hard time understanding I wasn't born to the people I lived with.
Peripherally Lilo and Stitch does: it's very sympathetic toward the sort of families whose kids end up in the system as well as the circumstances they find themselves in. >!Though Lilo avoids it in the end,!< foster care is the big threat hanging over the whole movie. It's a Disney cartoon about an alien, sure, but I think there's also some interesting commentary in there on child welfare/CPS.

I can't recommend much on TV, mostly because I don't watch enough.
This is Us though, for sure. By far some of the most realistic depictions of system life I've seen in any media. That shit was triggering. I missed the last season though, so idk how it holds up. Adoption's a really big part of the show too.
I couldn't get into The Fosters, I can't put my finger on why, but I know other FFY who like it a lot. And it's probably the media on foster kids that "outsiders" are most familiar with.

Books:
Non-fiction stuff on historical foster care: Into the Arms of Strangers, Other People's Houses (both about the Kindertransports); Twice Orphaned (about Japanese-American foster kids in the internment camps).