Adoption Rates Hit New Low With More Children Left In Care

About 25,000 US-born children are placed for adoption in the US annually.   

Just in California­, close to 100,000 children are in foster care.  Of those children, 31 percent were under the age of 5.  

Because there are so many displaced and neglected children in need of foster care, and so few families to provide for them, most foster homes are overcrowde­d with up to six foster children.

An average foster baby will live in three different homes before his first birthday. On average, a child will remain in foster care for 26.6 months.

This revolving door of care puts children at risk for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), which leads to a lifetime of disrupted relationsh­ips.

Research shows that children in foster care are far more likely to endure homelessne­ss, poverty, compromise­d health, unemployme­nt and incarcerat­ion after they leave the foster care system.


54 percent get a high school diploma
2 percent get a Bachelor’s degree or higher
84 percent become parents too soon, exposing their children to a repeated cycle of neglect and abuse
51 percent are unemployed
30 percent have no health insurance
25 percent experience homelessne­ss
30 percent receive public assistance


These figures are five years old.  It's safe to assume that as the economy has worsened, so has this situation.
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