Even though they don’t have to swim through a tunnel like Jerry in “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, foster youth are initiated out of the foster care system. From my perspective they are initiated out of the system when they have graduated high school and have met all requirements. They have also found a plan as to how they will live and what they will do in the future once they are released. In other students or peoples perspective the youth must be 18 and emancipated. No plan required. I see these differently, because if you have no plan once you’ve graduated and are 18 then most likely you’ll be homeless and somehow manage to get back into the welfare system. That just goes to show me, and possibly others that you have not really gotten out the system.
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