No, there isn't much of a difference. It's just that we have an elevated teen pregnancy rate, so the dependency ratio, the requirement that there be a young mother.... Mothering and not having achieved the education, then not having the personal support within a family context to be parent at a young age, if they keep the child, which young girls and women often do.... I think we see some really persistent issues around whether we have adequate programs for young people in care and whether we're adequately engaging them and listening to them and supporting them.
We also have a class of young people who live independently before they age out. At around 16 or 17 they may basically be given social assistance and live independently. In our work we see a lot of risk from that in terms of their safety, well-being, and lack of social connection. It's a deeply vulnerable group that, not surprisingly, has some of the poorest outcomes.