The Waves: What the Hart Family Murders Reveal About Foster Care

Published: March 30, 2023, 7 a.m.

On this week\u2019s episode of The Waves, Slate supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by Texas Tribune reporter Roxanna Asgarian to discuss her book We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death and Child Removal in America and its findings on the foster care system. The book covers the tragic Hart family murders in 2018 where two mothers drove their six adopted children off a cliff.\xa0\n\nIn Slate Plus: How Roxanna navigated writing about a tragic family story in a pandemic while being a first-time mom.\xa0\n\nPodcast production by Cheyna Roth and Tori Dominguez with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.\n\nSend your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices