It really is legion, the number of issues that kids are facing. As I mentioned, largely, we know that 40% have had experiences in care. If you're going to look at the single largest risk factor someone may have, it would be their history of care—it is definitely one of them.
Then, if you think about it—again, through my social lens—when you're taken into care, especially with protection being so mandated, the system tends to block you from family. Family is seen as the danger that you need to be protected against, although this is changing, definitely, for the kids who are coming through. Prevention is generational. A change made now will take 25 years before we start to see the effect. That would be the number one reason.
At the core of all of it is family.... It could be as simple as someone not following the rules. Maybe they've started not going to school and maybe they've started smoking pot in their room, or it could be all the way up to the most horrific abuses you could possibly imagine. When we talk about family conflict, then, we really do have to look at it from a nuanced perspective to see if it's something most horrific, or maybe there could be a little conversation between the two of them—the parent and the child—to say maybe there are some rules they could follow and sort of work it out.