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Of these, less than 6% will go on to college. Not graduate from - just attend.
Half will face homelessness. Many will end up pregnant themselves, or in jail, or exploited.
Imagine being 18 with nothing - no family, no money, no education, no practical knowledge. All you have is trauma. My ex was taken from his parents who physically abused him (mom had Munchausen's by proxy, dad didn't intervene and eventually died of a drug overdose). He ended up being physically, sexually, and emotionally abused by the system, mostly in group homes where most teenage foster kids who are not placed with family members end up because of a shortage of caring families (though he has horror stories about the triple decker bunk bed barracks he stay in with families who had tons of foster kids who they treated as a form of income, but he was stuck at because there was nowhere else to put him. When he aged out, he was homeless with his best friend - a fellow foster care kid with cerebral palsy who was perfectly normal mentally, but never got the therapies he needed to be functional in society physically. The best friend lives off the system in complete isolation now, and my ex never developed the skills to maintain a loving, healthy relationship because of how he was raised.
If there are thousands of people at this march, then each and every one should be picking up an application to foster a child in need. We should not have a shortage of loving, supportive foster families in this country with such a robust pro-life movement.
My heart goes out to your ex. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of kids like this and while there are a lot of foster parents who I wouldn't leave a dog with, there are lot of others who are angels who walk this earth.
Too bad this march isn't about taking care of the children who are already born and struggling to make it in this world.
The date on the stream shows Jan 27 2017, 1:17 pm.
The camera scans around from time to time.
When I go to that, it does scan occasionally (after I made sure to click specifically on live view, since apparently it defaults to several days ago), but all I get is a scan of building tops and very few street scenes. Have yet to actually see the National Mall. But I'll keep trying.
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I truly hope liberals stay away or can control themselves and not spit, throw eggs at them, light any of their hair on fire,
pour jars of urine on them, cut their clothes with razors, or generally cause violence or anarchy during this march.
(These were all acts they have done recently to Trump supporters)
Let's hope the self-righteous manage to keep away from throwing bombs at facilities providing abortion services along with those who work in them.
When I go to that, it does scan occasionally (after I made sure to click specifically on live view, since apparently it defaults to several days ago), but all I get is a scan of building tops and very few street scenes. Have yet to actually see the National Mall. But I'll keep trying.
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