What Happens After Foster Care?
A family is forever, foster care is not. As an article in today’s New York Times explains, children who age out of foster care are especially vulnerable in our present difficult economic climate. While New York has tried to provide a safety net of sorts for children between the ages of 18 and 21 who are too old for foster care but incapable of making their own way, the fact remains that many of these young men and women cannot make it on their own and have no family resources to fall back on. Economic times like these see so many young adults returning to their family for resources and support. For former foster children the outlook is bleaker. One of the bigger New York agencies, New York Foundling, is urgingaging out clients to immediately apply for welfare because officials there see no alternative. Another child welfare official is quoted as saying, “it’s like falling off a cliff….” More Information. April 7, 2009. What Foster Care Can Mean. During the current controversy over Ma
