Fostered Voices: Narratives of US Foster Care is a PhD thesis by Nikky R Greer submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board in December 2019.

In her study, Nikky Greer has used an anthropological approach to examining the foster care system, including interviews with those involved.

She argues that saying the foster care system is “broken” assumes that the system is there to “help and support families and children.”

Instead, she shows that what the system is all about is, its “most basic function is to shape, control and reform its subjects into compliant neoliberal citizens”.