foster home

After bouncing around foster homes across SoCal throughout her childhood, the comedian has made a permanent home of South Central L.A.

Britt also inspired the slapstick sidekick Harrogate in “Suttree,” which McCarthy was writing when they first met at a Tucson motel swimming pool where she went to safely shower away from her foster home.

Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of foster homes, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.

Since then, the county has been flooded with claims of abuse from those placed in its sprawling network of foster homes, children’s shelters and probation camps and halls.

She hopes that counties can step in for the foster homes affected by the insurance change so children can stay put.