Slideshow: Fewer California Kids in Foster Care

In California and nationwide, the declining number of children in foster care has been hailed as a child welfare success story, but racial and ethnic inequities and other challenges persist.

In 2012, 55,218 children in California were in foster care, a 49% decline since 1998.

Child welfare experts suggest that these changes are due in part to foster care policy shifts that have sped up adoptions and improved services to families to avoid having to remove children from their homes.

Take a look behind the numbers in this slideshow.

Posted by kidsdata.org

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