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Smith, C. (2010, October 20). // Generation Homeless: Older teens cycle out of foster care…and onto the streets. //  Retrieved May 7, 2012, from Seattle Post Globe.


 * 1) Shelters for young adults, including ones in King County, Washington, must turn more and more people away due to rising housing costs and unemployment.
 * 2) Much of this is sparked by the holes in the foster care system.
 * 3) Many of the young adults, due to being kicked out, end up homeless.
 * 4) Most young adults in these shelters are anywhere from eighteen to twenty-four.
 * 5) Due to the homelessness of these young adults, their offspring will often become homeless as well.
 * 6) One woman named Casi Jackson had had three children by age twenty; she had once spent many nights out of the street after being kicked out of a foster home.
 * 7) Casi Jackson now works to help struggling teen mothers like herself have a home until they can make ends meet.
 * 8) Up to two million young people become homeless each year.
 * 9) In King County, Washington, up to one thousand people are homeless on any given night.
 * 10) These homeless numbers are driven mainly by the toughness of the economy on young people and the age requirement of the foster care system.
 * 11) ROOTS – an organization that houses young adults – expected to turn away two thousand people in the year of 2010.
 * 12) Comparatively, ROOTS had to turn away only two hundred people five years before.
 * 13) The odds of getting able to be held in one of these shelters for young adults is about one in seven.
 * 14) Twenty percent of young women who grow up in foster care are mothers by the time they are eighteen.
 * 15) Another forty percent of these young women in the foster care system are pregnant at eighteen.