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Juvenile

Dec. 12, 2006

Treat Emancipated Foster Kids as Well as Parents Treat Their Own

FORUM COLUMN - By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth - In the first part of this two-part exposition, we showed that today's youth face extraordinary and new difficulties in achieving self-sufficiency after turning 18 and that the average age for self-sufficiency is now 26.

Forum Column

By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth
     
      In the first part of this two-part exposition, we showed that today's youth face extraordinary and new difficulties in achieving self-sufficiency after turning 18 and that the average age for self-sufficiency is now 26. We also explained that, although American parents invest substantially in their own children - the median investment am...

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