America is in desperate need of more loving homes for kids. Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services took the first step in making it easier to fight today’s foster care crisis. It should finish the job.
In 2017, more than 687,000 children spent time in the foster care system. Unfortunately, more than 20,000 of those children “aged out” of the system, meaning they turned 18 without ever finding a permanent home. Kids who age out of foster care face troubling odds: 20 percent will be homeless at age eighteen, 50 percent will be unemployed at age twenty-four, and 97 percent will never graduate from college.
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