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A population-at-risk I have chosen was the youth aging-out of foster care. By calling it “age-out” I’m referring to it as occurring both before and after leaving foster care. Nationally, there are 20,000 youth in foster care who are at the aging out of foster care. Generally, these children has been abused or neglected. There are those who feel as if foster care can have some type of impact on this particular lifestyle for these youth adults aging out of this care. Some feel that there may be some foster care homes that may possibly not help the child deal with their situation for leaving their family homes. For example, the child may have been physically or sexually abused, and or, have lived with parents with alcohol or substance use or abuse, and etc.
Children who reach 18 and adulthood in the foster care system without being adopted or having any family or mentor of their own, may tend to struggle to live in this society. This type of system may......

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Title: Populations At Risk
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