What are some statistics for adoption and foster care?

It would be really helpful to have recent statistics for adoption and foster care. Some examples are ages[what percent of 0-1 year olds, 2-4 year olds, 5-8 year olds, 9-12 year olds, 13-15 year olds, and 16-18 year olds get adopted/placed in foster care(i need the answers for both foster care and adoption.)]and gender [what percent of boys get adopted/placed in foster care? What percent of girls get adopted/placed in foster care.(again i need the answers for both adoption and foster care)] PLEASE tell me what source you have gotten your information from! Thanks for your help. Any other stats you may have will help! =]!

Looney Tunes

The most reliable sources:

1) Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families (This is the Federal Government)
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm
Note: Trends in Foster Care and Adoption and the individual State data as you scroll down.
The most reliable source of information that you can cite as a source.

There is a chart of all the information you are seeking.

2) PEW Charitable Trust is a top-notch organization fighting for the rights of foster children. There are many reports and data here.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=8

Adoptionissadnsick

procrastinate much?

Randy B

You are going to have a problem because there are no one set of national level statistics, that I am aware of. Since adoptions in the US and Canada are State/Provincial matters each State/Province keeps their own stats.

I guess next time you will start in enough time to get things together before they are due to be handed in.

durdenslabs

There are 510,000 children in the U.S. foster care system; 129,000 of these children are available for adoption.

More children become available for adoption each year than are adopted.
In 2006, 79,000 children had parental rights terminated by the courts, yet only 51,000 were adopted.

A child in foster care can wait up to five years to be adopted.

The average age of the child waiting to be adopted from foster care is eight years old.

The average number of months a child waiting to be adopted has been in foster care is 39 months.

Each year, 20% of children (26,517 in 2006) exit foster care at age 18 without an adoptive family.

According to a National Adoption Attitudes Survey, 63 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of adoption and 78 percent think more should be done to encourage adoption.

Nearly 40 percent of American adults, or 81.5 million people, have considered adopting a child, according to the National Adoption Attitudes Survey. If just one in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child in foster care would have a permanent family.

1.7 million are in foster care due to abuse.

1 out fo 5 will turn 18 this year (with no home).

http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/Adoption-Facts/Foster-Care-Facts

DevonChaos

This isn't the homework help section. This isn't what people come here to do.

Do your own research. What happened to doing your own homework? I guess I wasn't lucky enough to have the internet readily available when I had research reports to do.

There are plenty of sites that I know of that give such numbers... If I can find them, so can you!

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