On a sunny day in July, while other Bay Area kids were playing at camps or water parks, 8-year-old Charlotte O’Neill was leaning back in a reclining chair in a small, carpeted San Jose office room.
When a 6-year-old boy in foster care first came to live with the Richardson family, his behavior reflected the chaos of his home life. He was fighting daily in school, and, at home, ripped through the ...