November is National Adoption Month
National Adoption Month helps raise awareness about the thousands of children and youth nationwide in the child-welfare system who are awaiting permanent families.
Data show that there were 58,012 children in foster care in California in 2010. And, according to 2009 data, 72% of California’s foster children waited 2 or more years to be adopted into a permanent home.
See more data on foster care children in California>>
See a related Data Points blog post on “Helping Adopted Children Overcome Adversity“
Posted by kidsdata.org
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Thanks for bringing attention to adoption and foster care issues! I just wanted to clarify that not all children in foster care need to be adopted. Most return to their families.
At 12 months after entering foster care, 44% of children were reunified, and at 48 months 60% were reunified.
See these two indicators on kidsdata: http://www.kidsdata.org/data/topic/table/foster_care-status-12mo.aspx and http://www.kidsdata.org/data/topic/table/foster_care-status-48mo.aspx
Thanks for the comment Sarah! As our former Data Manager, you sure know our indicators!