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US: Number Of American Children In Foster Care Increases For 4th Consecutive Year

December 6, 2017 by Greg Cywnar

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway

US: Number Of American Children In Foster Care Increases For 4th Consecutive Year
National Public Radio – November 30, 2017
A new government report says the number of children in the U.S. foster care system has increased for the fourth year in a row, due largely to an uptick in substance abuse by parents. The report, issued annually by the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services, shows that 437,500 children were in foster care by the end of fiscal year 2016. A year earlier the number was 427,400.
Report: Number of children in foster care continues to increase: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/media/press/2017/number-of-children-in-foster-care-continues-to-increase
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/567615510/number-of-american-children-in-foster-care-increases-for-4th-consecutive-year

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