Your Questions About Foster Care Statistics
George asks…
Why does everyone think that if you foster, you always have to give the child back?
You don’t!
There are over 100,000 kids in the US waiting to be adopted that are in foster care! Each year, more than 25,000 kids “age-out” of the system with no-where to go. They were never adopted.
Not all foster kids are going back….
Look at the statistics….
In 2006 – 510,000 children in care:
49% of kids in foster care had the goal of going home
** 23% of kids in foster care had the goal of adoption
8% of kids in foster care had the goal of living with a relative
9% of kids in foster care had the goal of long-term foster care
6% of kids in foster care had the goal of emancipation
6% of kids in foster care unknown.
Lots of kids are available for adoption!
admin answers:
It is different in Canada. Most kids go back or do go long term. But long term fostering is hard, and we can’t kid people about it. Knowing that maybe the child could be taken or moved at any time, and it DOES happen, is hard.
I am a big proponent of foster care. I was a very good foster mom. I said goodbye to some amazing children. But all in all if you are fostering, you have to think you are fostering. You can’t go in thinking even slightly that you might adopt. May it come up? Sure, but if it doesn’t, if youi have a child in your life for two years and then the courts take a different action adn the child goes back, goes to long lost relative etc., it breaks your heart. If you are fostering and know the child could go, then it is easier (not easy, God not easy but easier( but if you have it in your head that you have this child forever, the grief is like a living death when the child is gone.
I say foster, yes, and if something ever comes of it long term then great, but if you think of fostrering to keep the child, then you will have your heart broken.
William asks…
Recent adoption statistics?
I’m looking for websites or articles that have recent (2008-2009) adoption statistics. I’m looking for things like: number of children adopted in the US, number of children in foster care, number of children in orphanages, the cost to the state etc.
Any help would be appreciated!
admin answers:
These Links Should Provide You The Statistics In Which You Seek, As Well I’ve Found Them To Be Accurate In My Needs.
Http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/adoption.cfm#inter
http://www.adopting.org/silveroze/html/lifelong_issues_in_adoption.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=usa+adoption+statistics&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GWYE_en
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Carol asks…
Statistics on the Child Welfare?
Hi everyone!! I was just wondering if anyone knew where some statistics could be found on the number of children in the foster care system whose families income were below the poverty line?
I can’t manage to find this statistic.
Any website would do, I don’t need any other statistics, I was able to find the rest.
Thanks for your help.
admin answers:
Referrals of possible child abuse and neglect, 2003 – 2,958,000
Children substantiated or indicated as abused or neglected, 2003 – 906,000
Children who died as a result of abuse or neglect, 2003 – 1,177
Children in foster care on September 30, 2003 -523,085
Children adopted from the public foster care system, 2003 – 50,362
Children waiting to be adopted on September 30, 2003 -124,665
Children living in poverty, 2004- 11,000,000
National Poverty Rate, 2004 13.1% *
National Poverty Rate for children under 18, 2004 18.4% *
National Poverty Rate for children ages 5-17, 2004 16.9% *
National Poverty Rate for children birth to age 4, 2004- 21.0% *
Hope that helps… Good luck!
Sandra asks…
Should Child Protective Services (CPS) Be Indicted For High Treason Against Humanity and Punished Accordingly?
Also known in different states as HRS, DHR, DCF etc. Remember, foster care is jail to a child. Many times a foster parent is much more abusive that the natural parent. 69% of America’s prison population spent some portion of thier childhood in foster care. They become a “child without a conscience.” CPS does not take these statistics into consideration, they only go by statistics that psychologists, AA/NA and others give.
admin answers:
This governmental entity has waaaay too much power. Where I live there is all kinds of corruption and they cannot run their offices, selling drugs out of one county and giving children back to child molesters – it is a travesty!! The system that is in place here needs reformed NOW!!!
Mandy asks…
Does anyone know what to file or how to get a juvenille dep case to the fed courts if cps falsified record?
My child was kidnapped as far as Im concerned. CPS said I didnt abuse or neglect my children.They stated in fact that I was a very good parent but that what they were doing was preventing it from happening in the future based on their statistics and that was grounds for prevention and that turned into addopting my son out and my daughter in foster care four years now and I followed their case plan. They wanted my children and it was personal to them.How is that legal along with the false reports and their purgery on the stand and if I can get a higher court to let me ask the questions to them on the stand I can prove it.The lower courts didnt allow me to say anything and if I did it was ecnored.Its as though I wasnt there and just because I cant afford an attorney Im still due equal protection by the law.NO?
admin answers:
Check with the local Bar Association to find an attorney that MAY do your case for free.
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