re: On the homelessness topic - 50% of the homeless in this country were in foster care

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Yeah I provided a link with studies

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I appreciate it!

Lack of the mother & father family structure in a house these situations and many other issues are not uncommon

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Once they hit 18 and graduate high school, they’re done. There are no social safety nets for a 19 year old foster kids. If your mother is somewhat in the picture still, you’re more likely to join a gang than be homeless.

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Oddly I feel that joining the Military is exactly the solution for this.

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If the net result is that it produces people that become homeless I'd say it needs improvement. That seems pretty obivous

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How do these stats compate with orphanages of old?

There was the orphan home on Masonic Drive in Elleck when I was a kid. The kids went to ASH. Most seemed very well adjusted and all graduated.

Problem with kids going into the foster care system…. Kids having kids and parents on drugs.

Parents using and exposing kids to drugs is a major problem in this country. Babies and toddlers testing positive through skin or in their system is common.
There’s women who would rather stay with a man and on drugs than keep their kids. Sad…. On this board there’s topics of at what lengths would you go to protect your kids and for some the value of addiction and relationship out weigh caring for a child.

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I updated the OP with a source

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The study results are specific to those youth who accessed services and were in the child welfare system in a US Rocky Mountain city’s metro area and with an active release of information. There could be systematic and unknowable differences between young people with and without an active release of information. Thus, the findings are not intended to be generalized beyond the sample it represents.

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lol

Your "source" is questionable. Other sources say it is in the 20-30% range.

As stated, there is no way to know for sure when we have no idea how many people are truly homeless.

The way they arrived at their data is questionable at best and different studies, with different agendas, arrive at different numbers.

In no way should you take that one source and extrapolate it to the nationwide homeless crisis like your thread title.

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This exploratory study leverages a public–private data linkage collaborative to integrate and de-identify child welfare data extracted from a Rocky Mountain state’s administrative database and houselessness service utilization data from a regional provider in a large metro area of the state.

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Large metro area in a Rocky Mountain state? So...
Denver, Colorado? Maybe SLC in Utah? Would anything else count as a large metro area? I'm willing to bet this study was conducted in Colorado.

I have to wonder if there is a correlation here with state laws that are hostile toward Christian foster care.

The “study” you linked based its estimation on an uncited “article” from foster focus magazine.

The foster care system is broken almost beyond repair. That said, some states have stepped up a little for those aging out of the system. Texas funds 100% college tuition along with room & board for all kids leaving the Texas foster care program.

let me help you understand something jethrine, i don't give a schit. you obviously aren't married and don't have kids, but if you were you would care how your kids were doing not how society in general kid's were doing.

my job was to the best of my abilities make sure my kids didn't end up in foster care and homeless. that's what i did your welcome society in general. i'm giving myself a congratulatory pat on the back! job well done me!

i don't remember you being anywhere around while i was putting my kids through college. here's the thing hillary it doesn't take a village to raise children. the greatest gift you can give your children is a stable intact two parent home. something you won't ever achieve because you never grew up.

you are a good person because you have compassion for people you don't know and believe there's a gubberment solution for all problems!