Download This Paper'State Orphans' in the United States: A Failure of Intergenerational Solidarity
16 Pages Posted: 28 Mar 2012 Last revised: 22 Jun 2012
Date Written: March 28, 2012
Abstract
This article reviews the situation of youth exiting foster care in the United States in a time of economic crisis and argues that reforms are needed to insure that children who are taken into state custody for their own protection do not exit into a social and economic void.
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Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 'State Orphans' in the United States: A Failure of Intergenerational Solidarity (March 28, 2012). Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-202, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2030244 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2030244
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