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As South L.A. Families Struggle to Raise Relatives' Kids, Some Want More Support

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Almost 40 percent of all foster kids in California live with a relative when their parents cannot raise them. But the foster care and welfare systems don't pay as much to relatives as they do to other foster parents who are not kin. And that means many grandmothers, aunts and uncles end up struggling.

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