Quadruplets Growing Up in Foster Care Attract National Attention

LOS ANGELES - March 3, 2016 - PRLog -- Role models for anyone who has had to endure the foster care system, 19-year-old quadruplets Bianca, Madison, Tiffany, and Paris Lucci, have survived every imaginable hardship and risen up to defy all odds.

Unfortunately, in many ways, the story of the Lucci quadruplets is an anomaly. In Los Angeles County alone, less than half of foster-care youth will graduate from high school and even fewer graduate from college. Additionally, conservative studies in the U.S. show that one in five children in foster care will become homeless after the age of 18, when they “age out” of the system. Less than three percent will earn a college degree, and only half will be employed at 24. Furthermore, one in four children will have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, at twice the rate of war veterans.

After entering the foster care system at age 11, the Lucci sisters were split up and spent several years in and out of various foster homes and group homes. While in the system, they filled their "black, plastic garbage bag" multiple times moving from one place to the next. Many times their belongings were lost, stolen or just left behind.

The short video “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” was shot by Jade Collins-Parnell a film student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Jade, a triplet herself, met the Lucci quadruplets in Beverly Hills growing up. Below is a link to the “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WkkEn5kDE&list=UUpxj7bfnrFvwzBhKWHKkk_w&index=2



Every child deserves a safe place to call home. Sadly, not every parent is capable of providing their child a stable home environment. The average foster child moves an average of seven times before the age of 18. When a social worker arrives to pick up a foster child to move them to a new home, they bring a black, plastic garbage bag for the child to put his or her possessions in. In May, during National Foster Care Awareness Month, the Lucci Quads will be launching their non-profit foundation called A Case of Love. Their mission is to provide children entering foster care with a duffel bag containing brand new belongings of comfort and necessity to help ease their transition into foster care.

Ruth Collins, the producer of “Moving America Forward,” a TV show hosted by William Shatner, has obtained the rights to the “Lucci Story” and is currently producing a movie about them. Ms. Collins stated, “There is so much more to these girls than what was shared in the Straight Outta Beverly Hills video; they are not only role models for every child in the foster care system but have been courageous in sharing their story to bring awareness and make it safer for others that end up in the system.”

For more information on the Lucci Quadruplets, visit their Facebook Fan Page at: https://www.facebook.com/thelucciquads.