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When adults call a young person their “last chance”, are they offering support—or quietly deciding what that person is allowed to become? Jamie’s experience with foster care and youth justice raises a difficult question: can rules protect young people if the people enforcing them stop listening to the young person’s own story?
Child welfare is meant to protect young people, but its rules also create labels and pressure. Jamie is treated as a “last chance”, so adults focus on control and obedience, while he expects judgment; this shapes his distrust, resistance and struggle to accept care.