sinnott 21, 22, etc. and i find them again when they leave the system with nobody. the constant stream of kids that are without resources and its topic. it's so tragic that this is happening to our kids. >> surviving it is really not that difficult. you're not caught up in needing instant gratification. if you are not doing it for the wrong reasons, it's a very selfless thing. and you can get through to not take it personally. but if you get caught up, it will destroy her. but if you can maintain a distance, the kids will be okay and you will be okay as well. again, there's nothing that you could do. >> thank you so much, mary. thank you. >> are there questions? >> hello, my name is simone. i'm the director of development. we do the foster care residential programs for parents and teens. i have a quick comment and question. the common is that it is true that if you are a politician, you cannot easily tie advocating for restructuring the foster care system. however, in new york state i personally think there is a way to tie it to decreasing homelessness rates. so if

. >> professor tom far who i mentioned at the outset makes an argument that political leaders -- sinnott we are not talking about the culture but the leaders who perhaps are nearing the culture are entirely overlooking the need for a global effort or fight to support religious liberty. he says this and he was a career foreign service officer and had many diplomatic posts before he entered the academy at georgetown university. he said political leaders see religious freedom as an entirely private matter with few legitimate keywords, public purposes and in no sense necessary to individuals and societies. do you agree with what he says? religion at the culture. they are talking about political leaders. >> absolutely agree on that. you can look positively and see how countries have had religious freedom for everybody. it's one of the keys to a thriving and robust civil society. or you can look at it negatively. countries that have religious freedom go a long way towards socked in sectarian confidence and violence and so on. so it's an incredibly important factor that goes way beyond religion

. >> sinnott one way or the other? >> nope. but you shouldn't choose one of these because somebody else is pushing you to do it. you should actually make the choice to beat >> thank you. >> yes? >> so, a lot of these problems are problems with women of extreme privilege. and i'm just curious about the way that you -- first of all whether you chose to sort of target a very mitch group of women when you were writing this book and how much and whether you deal with issues of race and class with all of these issues of perfection to disconnect that is a really good question and i know it's one i'm going to be getting a lot. the book is largely about white women, women of privilege and straight women and it's that way because that's who i am. i made the decision early on in writing the book that that for me was the only honest route to take. if i tried to include chapters about and this is what it's like to be poor, black, i would have had to write a very different book. so i decided to do what is honest to me and say this is the wor