Statistics about adoption within the first year of life?

Andraya

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, well ok not really.

I'd bet my life that 100% of healthy newborns who are placed for adoption are adopted. Unless there is a serious problem with the child people snap up babies like cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving.

i don't think there are stats but you can extrapolate from what we do know. In the private adoption scene babies are in high demand with people being on list for years. Even in foster care most people want to foster or adopt younger kids. Babies have a really good chance of being adopted
I am a foster parent and my resouce manager says that there are very few babies in care. The problem is when with kids 5 and older or in large sibiling groups many people don't want to adopt them

monkeykitty83

I can't give you an exact figure (that would vary by area,) but healthy newborns are almost invariably adopted very quickly, and some expectant mothers are even matched with prospective adoptive parents before the birth in private adoptions. Infants whose mothers voluntarily terminate parental rights are highly unlikely to be left waiting in the foster care system.

There are infants in foster care, but in almost all cases the parental rights of their biological parents have not been terminated. There is still hope their families can reunite, so they are not available for adoption. It's not that people wouldn't want them.

The older children who remain in foster care for long periods of time without being adopted were usually either placed in the foster care system when they were already past the infant/toddler stage, or did not have their parents' rights terminated till they were older. They generally haven't been legally free for adoption since they were infants.

Some children with severe special needs also may have trouble being placed, even if they are newborns. That's not true across the board, and many special needs children do find adoptive families, but their adoption rates are lower than those for children who are considered healthy.

Infants with no known medical or developmental problems who have already had a termination of parental rights are highly, highly unlikely to remain in foster care for any length of time, if they end up there at all.

Siver C

My sister is a foster mother to infants. Either new born or under 3 months when she picks them up. She's been doing this a long time. Every baby she's fostered was born addicted to something. Heroin, Meth, coke, crack, booze, nicotine. She has picked everyone of them up from the hospital. And these kids are SICK. Every single one has gone back to it's parents.
I always think of a baby falling into the hands of the angels when she catches one..
All of the parents really did clean their acts up. She tells all of them the same thing, > I take care of this baby like it was my own. Please take THIS chance. Your baby is healthy and LOVED, go get well.
She wants infants because she hopes they won't remember her. She's hoping these kids go on, maybe someday knowing they were in care but not recalling anything horrible. The longest she's had a child was 1 year 4 months. His parents have SO turned around.
She knows someone is going to mess up. But at least she DID something about the kids you see on TV
She always gets thank you letters and pictures, at least for a while.
But people want to forget what a terrible mistake they made. Because by then... they are no longer a person that would smoke crack IN labor. And my sister is a reminder of that crime against their child. Some have to work at not resenting her. human nature is a complicated animal.
She's my hero. she really is.
And those parents have been pretty amazing too. I never thought ANY of them would make it. But so out of 8 sets of parents they did it. A couple of hiccups but always while my sister still had their kids. These were all people that did want to sign their rights over.
Foster care money doesn't cover the cost. My sisters family does it out of PURE love.

Randy B

I would say that most newborns, unless they have serious issues, will be adopted very quickly. I wouldn't say within their first year only because for many of them, especially those in foster care, it may take more then a year to get PGO (the parental rights severed). With that being said though, I think it is fair to state that if not completed, then the adoption is in progress for within the first year for those infants placed for adoption.

The stats below may give you a bit better idea about this trend. Its as of 2000 but it does show the trends.

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