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Vulnerable Youth: Recent Trends


  Author: Richard Wertheimer, Astrid Atienza
Publisher: Child Trends
Publication: Child Trends Working Paper
Document Date:                  April 2006
Category: Crime And Violence > Incarceration
Related Categories:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Motherhood
Children > Abused Children
Children > Child Welfare
Children > Foster Home Care
Crime And Violence > Youth Crime
Public Policy > Child Protection Services
Public Policy > Welfare
 

This report examined the progress of different groups of vulnerable youth including youth who suffer abuse, youth living in foster care, teen mothers and teens in juvenile detention centres.  The report found a decline in teen motherhood and a slight increase in the number of teens in foster care between 2000 and 2003.

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