Re:What It Feels Like to Be Adopted at 17
by aidenn0 on Sunday January 03, 2016 @01:10PM
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Similarly in the article how the author was touched by being grounded; most healthy 17 year olds take it for granted that when they leav,e they have a home to go to, and that their parents want them to be safe. The majority of foster youth do not.
It's interesting how people can have totally different needs and dreams depending on their upbringing / life history. 17-20 is about the age when people I know (myself included) try to separate themselves from their families, to assert themselves as individuals and protagonists of their life stories. The last thing I cared about at that age was "a permanent family to come home to from college".