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Rebecca Lindstrom is the chief investigative reporter for 11Alive, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, and a 2023 Senior Fellow for the Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship. For nearly three decades, she has told stories focused on social inequality and child and animal welfare, and has worked to expose corruption within our government and business communities. In 2020, Lindstorm participated in the Center for Health Journalism’s Data Fellowship. She won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, broadcast journalism's highest honor, for her Fellowship project, the series #Keeping, focused on the gaps in Georgia’s mental and behavioral healthcare system that too often lead parents to abandon their children. In 2016, Georgia Associated Press Media Editors named her Best Reporter, and in 2018, the Georgia Association of Broadcasters bestowed the same honor. She has won national and regional Edward R. Murrow awards and 11 regional Emmys. Learn more about the story behind her Data Fellowship project here.
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As part of an 11Alive investigative series, this story examines the gaps in Georgia's system to help children with mental and developmental disabilities.
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One mom told me, “I love my son. I love him so much but it’s like, am I the best thing for him?"
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The latest in a series investigating the challenges and systemic gaps that cause parents to abandon their children to state custody in Georgia.
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11Alive started the research by talking with several parents that made the decision to abandon their child or are struggling with the question.
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It’s been called trading custody for care — the belief that the state can offer something the parents cannot.