They have packed schedules!  The Holograms always take time out of their busy lives to work with the girls at the Starlight Foster Home, where they live as well, and have become one huge family.
Starlight Foundation
Starlights Abound.....  The Starlight Girls are foster girls, first started by Jaqui Benton (pardon the spelling, it's not written down anywhere at the moment)  who was herself a foster girl.  She set up The Starlight Foster Home for Girls with her husband Emmet Benton when their lives were settled and going good as a way to pay back their community and do their part as well.  She wanted all girls to have a place to call home.....
Here is the present batch of girls at the very beginning, and an early look at Jerrica and Rio :)
A very early shot of BaNee....
Here's Ashley, Ann and Leila... Leila was the third starlight girl taken in and the closest in age to Kimber Benton.
Happy Starlights!

Odds are that was the Lindsy Pierce show on tv there and Jem did something great or won something great on it :)
BaNee finds her father in the end of the series.  Her mother was from Vietnam and her father was a soldier who married her there.  The village was attacked and he put her mother on a cart to escape just in time.  I don't know if it was ever mentioned if her mother came to America or had BaNee there, but her mother spun tales of her red haired father that stayed in BaNee's heart and kept her faith until Jem and the Holograms found him with Riots help.
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