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Fostering Smooth Transitions
Charities step up efforts to help young adults leaving foster care
By Elizabeth Greene
New York
At age 20, Antoine Platel is less than a year away from a change that will be dramatic even for someone who is used to upheavals. On his next birthday, he will no longer qualify for the government foster-care benefits -- food, housing, and supervision, for example -- that for years...