Youth Age Out Of Foster Care Research

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Should the youth age out of foster care at 18 years old? Young people today face difficult challenges throughout their emerging adulthood. While the youth in the general population get support from families throughout their emerging adulthood. Becoming more independent as their brain develops through age 25. The youth aging out of foster care do not have this option. Leading up to what should be a gradual transition into the general population. Often becoming an abrupt loss that put them at rish of negative outcomes ( Torrico 1). Furthermore, the lack of emotional connection and the sense of being cared about is one of the hardest aspects to handle aging out the system. Children placed in foster care never stay in one place. Gradually being

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