So that siblings in foster care can stay together, Christian Bale opened a 12-home village built around a garden in Palmdale, California.
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Kept 'together'? It is the best word in the sentence and it is what the place is for. But a foster village is, by definition, where brothers and sisters are not split up, so 'foster' and 'village' carry it between them. The first name stays because 'Bale' on its own is a footballer to most of the world. 'Palmdale', 'California', '12-home' and the garden are where and how big, and they go in the first line of the story instead. This one really happened. Around 2008 Christian Bale looked at his young daughter, tried to imagine her without parents, and went to find out what happens to children who lose theirs. What he found was that when children are taken into care they usually lose their brothers and sisters too, by some estimates as often as three times in four. He recruited Tim McCormick, who had run foster homes in Chicago for decades, and with his wife Sibi and his friend Dr Eric Esrailian founded a charity to build something better. He broke ground in February 2024, sixteen years after he started, and it opened on 11 September 2026: twelve houses in six duplexes on four and a half acres round a shared garden, a community building, and two studio flats for the ones ageing out at eighteen. It cost about $22 million. Los Angeles County has more children in foster care than anywhere in America, more than thirty thousand.