Sobering...

Statistics on foster children who age out of the system...

• 50% of teens in foster care drop out of high school.

• 60% of them will be homeless, go to jail, or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at age 18.

• Girls in foster care are 600% more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.

• 3 in 10 of the nation's homeless are former foster children.

• Only 7-13% of foster children enroll in higher education.

• 1% of former foster children earn a college degree.

And because I cannot say it any better than this gal...

The Reality of Aging out of Foster Care.

Because we are called by our Savior,