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Aging Out of Foster Care

By AAN Staff
august 8, 2003  03:13 pm
Aging Out of Foster Care
By the time she turned 18 in July, Sinika had survived abandonment, sexual molestation, and a long stint on the streets. She had been in Baltimore's foster care system since she was 12 years old. Baltimore City Paper's Afefe Tyehimba looks at what's next for the young woman undergoing the transition from unforgiving control of the foster system to the chaos of making her own way. "Like her tumultuous past, Sinika's future has no blueprint, but her basic life goals are the same as everyone else's: to live a peaceful, stable, prosperous life filled with people to love who love you back," she writes.
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