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She was adopted at 17. Then, a stranger who’d ‘been where she is’ offered to help pay for college.

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As a child in the foster system, Ashley Lacasse had already attended 19 different schools by the time she was 17. But now she has a stable home and the opportunity to attend college, thanks to her two adoptive moms and the generosity of a perfect stranger. “There’s sort of this unspoken rule with older kids that are in the system,” Ashley told her new moms, “and once you hit about 10 years old, nobody wants you anymore and you will never find a family.” That sense of hopelessness is…

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Touching PSA Shows The True Story Of A Teenage Boy Finally Being Adopted And Accepted Into A New Family

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The sad reality is that most people are more keen on adopting babies, toddlers, and other young children. This preference makes it much harder for teens in foster care to find a loving family. According to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF): “Teenagers between the ages of 15 to 17 years old wait, on average, twice as long for an adoptive home, compared to children who are 14 years of age and younger. Currently, about one in five children waiting to be adopted are teenagers.” National Foster Youth Institute…

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