Teenager Wendy Broadbent's inside story on foster care Wendy Broadbent, 18, is launching a book about her foster care experience called Just A Kid. WENDY Broadbent knows all too well the difficulties children in foster care face: being removed from their family and then being placed with another. After entering foster care at age 12, the remarkable young woman is now studying at university to be a child protection worker and is today launching a book she wrote called Just a Kid. Ms Broadbent, 18, wrote the book as part of her Year 12 research and it has been published with support of Families SA. "It was something I came up with myself because there isn't anything for new foster kids and it was the most difficult thing getting taken away from your family, going to a new one," she said. The book talks about the difficult things that are happening - that you won't always get answers and there will be a lot of maybes. Families SA will give a copy of the book to all children entering foster care. Ms Broadbent hoped it would help them to not feel alone, and provide advice on how to deal with practical issues as well as feelings. "You go through lots of emotions really, not just one, because it's difficult every day trying to adapt and you miss home," she said. Education Minister Jennifer Rankine said it was wonderful to see a young person overcome challenges most of us could not imagine.