This L.A. mom has taken in over 1,000 foster kids. Now she leads HBO’s ‘Foster’ documentary

This L.A. mom has taken in over 1,000 foster kids. Now she leads HBO’s ‘Foster’ documentary

By: Christina Schoellkopf

Every two weeks, at about 2 or 3 a.m., newborns were dropped off at Earcylene Beavers’ Los Angeles home. Some didn’t have bottles. Most didn’t have clothes, just swaddled in light blankets.

For 13 years, Beavers cared for babies in 15-day intervals, after emergency social workers separated them at birth from their parents, often due to drug exposure. Maintaining two cribs in her bedroom, she sometimes cared for two at a time, all while working full time.

“When I would go to church, people would say, ‘Let me see your baby today. Let me see which baby you got,’ ” she told The Times.

“Sometimes I would call my sitter that morning and say, ‘I got a baby last night. I’m dropping it off to you, and I’ll be back to pick her up after work. Any problems, call me.’ ”

Beavers’ story is one of five from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services featured in the HBO documentary “Foster,” premiering Tuesday during National Foster Care Month.

Read the full story here.

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