. >> reporter: peter samuelsson produced foster boy with shaq.rtant for him to provide more awareness about what he calls a broken system. >> 9% of american foster kids go to college. 3% earn a degree. our kids, 89% go to college. it's transformative, in the end, there's nothing matter with the kids and a lot the matter with the grown ups and the system. >> reporter: of the to approximately 400,000 kids in the foster care system, 23,000 age out without ever finding a perpendicul permanent family of their own on. and face teen pregnancy, suicide and incarceration. >> this is the last great civil rights struggle that never had a day one. they don't be vote. they are children. >> i'm sure a lot of pressure has been put on the kids. research shows that smiling releases chemicals in your face and your brain, helps you feel a little bit better. so when i meet a person, i just try to make them laugh. but, a lot of the kids, when reality kicks back in, the laugh was cool for a second, when reality kicks back in, they go back to the space. >> reporter: in