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Teen Moms in Foster Care Have Their Children Removed at Alarming Rates. New York City’s Gotten Better at Avoiding That [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

 

As a teen mom in foster care with a baby of her own, New Yorker RaiLei Girard resolved never to become “known.”

To be “known” meant possibly having her own child placed in foster care — to be accused of child neglect or abuse, then becoming “known” to a child welfare system that takes children from teen moms in foster care at an alarmingly high rate.

Girard, who entered foster care at age 3, avoided that outcome. But another challenge emerged raising her son in her foster parents’ home.

[For more on this story by Michael Fitzgerald, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...-new-york-city/30866]

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