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Family

Dec. 11, 2006

Emancipation Leaves Foster Kids Trapped in Poverty and Despair

FORUM COLUMN - By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth - When children in America turn 18, they "emancipate" into adulthood. They are able to vote, sit on a jury, enter into contracts and get married without parental permission.

Forum Column

By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth
     
      When children in America turn 18, they "emancipate" into adulthood. They are able to vote, sit on a jury, enter into contracts and get married without parental permission. Until they reach that age, their parents are responsible for their care and sustenance. That responsibility is reflected in required child-support enforcement and even...

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