Mr. Gallaher also is a transgender person, and a former ward of the state — both of which, studies show, make him far more likely to experience homelessness.
I am a former "ward of the state" but I overcame the assumptions behind being a foster child.
Andrijana, a former ward of the Centre in Milosevac, has two biological children of her own and fosters two others, both children with disabilities.
At M10, pieces of ceiling, glass, and concrete covered broken beds in a former ward, while a leftover bag of serum dangled near an electrical outlet.
In June 1705, under the false name of "Monsieur de Busch, Georgee visited the Ansbach court at their summer residence in Triesdorf to investigate incognito a marriage prospect: Caroline of Ansbach, the former ward of his aunt Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia.
So a former Wards clerk, Angie Surman, 44, and her colleagues bought them all, about 20 racks' worth, out of pride.
Not many former wards of New York City's public schools would cherish a splinter that pierced the rear of their public school principal in 1942, but Martin Raskin, it is safe to say, is in a class by himself.
The Bloomberg administration is gambling that the program will be equally effective for families, former convicts and former wards of foster care, many of whom have very different medical and economic needs.
About half of the abandoned children, officials said, were former wards of the state who were adopted or under the guardianship of relatives, often grandmothers or aunts, who said the disruptive children had sent them to the end of their ropes.
And at 19, having lived his nightmare, he may be better poised than anyone else to convince the Governor that casting 1,400 former wards of the state into the street will cost much more than the 0.18percentt of the budget shortfall cutting THP-Plus represents.
He came up with a standard but serviceable love triangle: Kelly, as an expatriate American painter, falls in love with an elusive gamine played by Ms. Caron, unaware that she is the former ward and current fiancée of his friend, a music hall performer played by Georges Guétary.
