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Marcela Davison Avilés

'We Were Once a Family' exposes ills of U.S. child welfare system

(‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The saga of the Hart family murder-suicide slammed the zeitgeist in 2018 with its brutal combination of cruelty, violence and social media narcissism.

In late March of 2018, Jennifer Hart and her wife Sarah drove their family off a cliff. Seated in the back seat of their SUV were Ciera, Abigail, Jeremiah, Devonte, Hannah and Markis — all between 12 and 19 years old. Jennifer and Sarah were white, all of the children were adopted from Black or blended families.

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