care leaver
n.— «Wards of the state are officially referred to as Care Leavers but the people who have been brought up this way don’t like that title. They would argue that no care was given to them at all» —“Who cares?” by Claire Halliday The Age (Melbourne, Australia) July 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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