to learn more about this issue, newshour weekend correspondent yvewitte feliciano spok mary keane, a senior advisor at you gotta believe, a new york-based organization that specializes id placing fosterwith permanent families. reporter: so, mary, starting off, what was your reaction to the findings from the survey published last weeby the administration for children's services? >> so, there is reallyothing surprising in it.nf thismation is known. working with these young people, they're aware of the increasing care.r of teenagers who are in and in that population, we all know that there are lgbtq kids, d they have what i call a double whammy. you know, they have sort of extra strules beyond what the average teenager has. >> reporter: in your experience, why do so many lgbtq youth end in foster care? >> so challenges that other kids have who wind up in foster cice: family dyn family struggles, family trauma. and then, in afaition, there's ly rejection, families who just don't know how to handle a kid when they come out and identify. and that's-- you know, i mean, we may be in new york