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Study: LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care Twice as Likely to Report Poor Treatment

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A landmark phone survey of foster kids in Los Angeles finds nearly 1 in 5 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexuality. That's twice as many as are believed to be in the general foster kid population in L.A. The study was released Wednesday by UCLA's Williams Institute, which also finds these 12-21-year-olds are twice as likely to report being treated poorly than straight foster kids.

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