ProudParenting.com - Woman helps struggling youth. Spent retirement savings to buy a home, with the hope of making it a refuge for kids. - Comments http://www.proudparenting.com/node/437 Comments for "Woman helps struggling youth. Spent retirement savings to buy a home, with the hope of making it a refuge for kids." en Woman helps struggling youth. Spent retirement savings to buy a home, with the hope of making it a refuge for kids. http://www.proudparenting.com/node/437 <p>Her goal was to help lesbian girls in foster care and provide a safe place to nurture them. In the past nine years, <a href="http://www.nynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070624/NEWS02/706240358" target=_"blank">Mary Keane has helped</a> 18 children and young adults (gay, lesbian and straight). Kids who were not doing well in foster homes, group homes or treatment centers have been offered a calm consistent home in Yonkers, New York.</p> http://www.proudparenting.com/node/437#comments Foster Care gay kids New York Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:54:30 -0700 Community Editor 437 at http://www.proudparenting.com