How foster care placements can harm a childs brain

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Research conducted by child development experts and scientists suggests that frequently moving foster care kids can have consequences for their brains and behavior. Story link: https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Video by James Wooldridge, Eric Adler and Neil Nakahodo • Links to all the stories in the Throwaway Kids series: • Part One of Six: ‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’ • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Part Two of Six: As U.S. spends billions on foster care, families are pulled apart and forgotten • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Part Three of Six: Frequent moves don’t just harm foster kids’ emotions — they hurt their brains • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Part Four of Six: Graduation rate of 35 percent? Many foster children ‘robbed of a good education’ • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Part Five of Six: Aging out: Thousands of foster youth graduate to the streets every year • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Part Six of Six: ‘The state that neglected me as a kid is the • same state that wants to kill me’ • https://www.kansascity.com/news/speci... • Throwaway Kids is a special Kansas City Star investigation published in December 2019: • A longtime advocate in Kansas City once told a reporter that foster care was “just a breeding ground for prison.” • That comment stuck with us and eventually led to this project. The yearlong investigation began with prisons and branched out into a more comprehensive look at long-term outcomes for children who age out of the nation’s broken, overwhelmed foster care system. • More from The Kansas City Star: • • Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2FDe1zT • Twitter: / kcstar • Facebook: / kansascitystar • Website: https://www.kansascity.com/ • Digital news subscription: http://bit.ly/2CDAZoD

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