The occasional weekend sleepover at a friend’s house...
Playing on the school basketball team...
Going on a class field trip...
Getting a cell phone...
Posting an update to Facebook...
Sound like pretty average activities for teenagers, right?
Not for teens in foster care.
For a number of reasons - like cost, liability, and biological parental rights - young people in Michigan’s child welfare system have long had to jump through multiple legal hoops to do things most people would consider “normal” for kids their age.