➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway
US: Adoption through foster care on the rise: ‘Every child deserves a childhood’
Yahoo News – September 01, 2017
As of 2015, about 450,000 children were living in foster care in the United States, and more than 110,000 others were waiting to be placed in foster care, according to a report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). About 20,000 will age out by 21 (plus others in states where the age is 18) and leave the foster care system without being adopted, putting them at about a 50 percent greater risk of homelessness and a 25 percent greater risk of addiction when compared with children who grew up in stable homes. Men are also at a 40 percent greater risk of incarceration when they’ve aged out of the foster care system, according to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/adoption-foster-care-rise-u-s-124148502.html