I have had more than a dozen so-called mothers in my life. Lorraine Rhodes gave birth to me. Gay Courter adopted me. Then there are the fillers. Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nearly a decade in foster care after her mother was deemed unfit by the State to care for her and Ashley’s younger brother, Luke.  Ashley bounced around between foster homes from ages three to twelve, sometimes with her brother and sometimes alone. She found some stability with her maternal grandfather’s girlfriend, Adele, but the instability […]