US: The Root: Helping Kids After Foster Care Ends
NPR May 10, 2011
Of the 30,000 foster-care youths who age out each year and suddenly find themselves on their own at age 18, most lack a high school diploma, and only 6 percent go on to earn college degrees. Unemployment and poverty-level wages are common, and an astounding 40 percent of young people aging out of foster care will at some point be homeless.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/10/136166653/the-root-helping-kids-after-foster-care-ends
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And then there are some that still have families that are there and willing to help them. Like us.
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