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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m listening to 1A and they are talking about all these kids who age out of foster care and are on their own or on the street. Do the families that care for these kids just say “well, happy 18th birthday! Now get out” how does that work? I would think that people willing to invest in them as kids would want to continue that after 18 so I know I’m missing something. Please help me have a better understanding of how this works. [/quote] Plenty of foster parents would but the child may want not want to. They want to be independent or they might want to move back in with some members of their biological family. They might move in with a boyfriend or a friend's family. Kids who have been in foster care for a long time carry a lot of trauma. It's hard for them, very hard. It effects all their relationships with their biological family, friends, bf/gf, their own children and the foster families they lived with. [/quote]
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