Abandoned America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
English | May 26th, 2020 | ISBN: 1620975009 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2.23 MB

A deeply affecting expos� of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people�or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four�experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams.