When Andrew Bridge was seven years old he and his mother-a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him-slid deeper and deeper into poverty until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system-'care' being a terrible irony as he received almost none for the next eleven years.
Academic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell-a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. Hope's Boy is his story a story of endurance and the power of love and most of all of hope.
