My wife, who is doing a great job as a volunteer with CASA (which provides volunteer advocates for kids in foster care, who troubleshoot the system for the kids), has her first court hearing as a CASA today.
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God bless her. One of the grimmest stats I ever heard was when a California university official told me that kids who age out of the foster care system were less likely to get a college degree than someone coming out of prison.