{"id":16580,"date":"2024-02-27T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:39:22","slug":"christian-bale-creates-project-to-build-12-homes-to-keep-foster-siblings-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/02\/christian-bale-creates-project-to-build-12-homes-to-keep-foster-siblings-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale Creates Project to Build 12 Homes to Keep Foster Siblings Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale, who played Batman in the \u201cDark Knight\u201d movie trilogy, is involved in a new project building houses and a community center as part of an initiative to protect foster siblings from being separated from each other. The 50-year-old actor met with local officials in Palmdale, California, in honor of the new construction, a project he envisioned 16 years ago.<\/p>\n

For most of his life, Bale, who was born in Britain, has lived in Southern California. The idea to build a community for foster siblings came to his mind when he found out that there was a larger percentage of foster children in Los Angeles County, and many of them were being separated. He told <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter, <\/em>\u201cI was stunned and mad to learn that we have more foster kids here than anywhere else in the country. I was also kicking myself for not knowing that before. So I thought, \u2018Well, this is it. Let\u2019s focus on this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cMy wife and I decided that we were going to do everything we could in our power to change that.\u201d However, Bale said that arranging for a community to be built for foster children was no easy task. He said, \u201cI had a very na\u00efve idea about kind of getting a piece of land and then bringing kids in and the brothers and sisters living together and sort of singing songs like the Von Trapp family in \u2018The Sound of Music.\u2019 It\u2019s way more complex. These are people\u2019s lives. And we need to be able to have them land on their feet when they age out. There\u2019s so much involved in this.\u201d<\/p>\n