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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. Most 18 year olds have just graduated high school.

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #1)

Mon May 29, 2017, 10:41 PM

May 2017

Not very many of them are ready to be fully independent. Even kids from good, intact families aren't generally prepared to be on their own at that point. And foster kids usually have lots of problems or issues that can make going it alone especially hard.

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How thoughtful...18 is still a kid...turning 20 makes you angstlessk May 2017 #1

Most 18 year olds have just graduated high school. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #2