Angel,
You are certainly right about this.
Vinny
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Subject: Re: A real Church


>I wish the age of majority were 21 rather than 18.  I think a lot of
> maturing goes on between those ages.  Also, people these days expect so
> little of young people before the age of majority and expect so much of
> them
> after that magic age comes it is hard for them to make the proper
> adjustments.  I sometimes think society  sets our children up to fail.  At
> least it is very hard for them to succeed with all the pressures to go the
> wrong way in life.
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> From: Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 5:25 AM
> Subject: Re: A real Church
>
>
>> Rhonda,
>> It is sad to me that the government is set up in such a way so that
>> age 18 is treated like some magical number at which we turn from
>> child to adult, like midnight in Sinderella or something.  It doesn't
>> help these kids and it certainly hasn't helped my Christopher.  It's
>> not like he went to bed on the eve of his 18th birthday thinking like
>> a child and then, when he woke up in the morning, he was capable of
>> making adult decisions and gained a lot of wisdom during the
>> night.  They're all still children in so many ways, but the
>> government says, "no, no!  They're adults now.  Let them free
>> fall."  The government wins and humanity loses.
>> Kathy
>>
>>
>> At 03:27 PM 11/25/2005, you wrote:
>> >That is a wonderful story,  and it is sad how kids are just left to sort
> of
>> >figure out how to survive on their own, not enough that  they've lived
>> >in
>> >foster care, and missed having their own family, but then they are just
>> >pushed away as though no one has time for them any more!
>> >Thank God, that  your church saw a need, and better than just seeing,
>> >did
>> >something about it!
>> >Rhonda
>