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care leaver

care leaver
 n.— «The list of young people, like care leavers and abuse victims, who can claim benefit because they live away from home is being extended to include young people who are—in the words of the DSS—”genuinely estranged from their parents.”» —“A package pressed for time” by Tim Lunn Guardian (U.K.) Mar. 22, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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