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Hazardous passage for at-risk youth [Foster Children]
Friday, May 21st, 2010
May 21 2010
…staying in foster care to 21 as opposed to leaving care before 18 results in better high-school completion rates and grades, lower rates of teen pregnancy, more permanent jobs, less involvement in crime and better use of mental health services. The numbers tell the story. As a community, we can make the decent and humane choice now to support the cost of emotional, financial and educational assistance for youth standing at the edge of adulthood. Or we can continue to abruptly cut youth loose and pay the considerable societal cost later.
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