Like gifts, gatherings, and good tidings, family is central to the holiday season. But for some local youth, the holidays are a painful reminder of what they have lost. While their classmates wish for clothes and electronics, many children, teens, and groups of siblings long for a loving family this holiday season. Too many kids have suffered abuse, neglect, and abandonment, and they need nurturing foster or adoptive parents. These young people have entered the foster care system through no fault of their own, but because they have experienced trauma, abuse, and neglect.