‘We Were Once a Family’ examines how the foster care system failed the Hart siblings

In 2018, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, two white lesbian moms, drove off a cliff in California, killing themselves and their six adopted Black children. While much of the media attention focused on the two women, reporter Roxanna Asgarian set off to investigate what had happened to the children’s birth families, and why they’d been removed from their care. In today’s episode, Asgarian speaks with Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes about her book, We Were Once a Family, and the ways the foster care and child welfare system in the United States pushed the Hart siblings into an abusive and ultimately fatal situation.