Exploring the complex dynamics between adoption, child abuse, and family violence, and the implications for adoptive families and social services

Foster care abuse statistics shine a light on the importance of proper foster parent training to provide a brighter future for every child.

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Objectives. To estimate the cumulative prevalence of confirmed child maltreatment and foster care placement for US children and changes in prevalence between 2011 and 2016. Methods. We used synthetic cohort life tables and data from the Adoption and ...

Explore adoption assistance for foster care adoption with Families Rising. Learn about eligibility, benefits, and supports to navigate the adoption journey.

Explore data about state approaches, children in care, and how money is invested in foster care vs. preventive and permanency services.

Their parents are generally well-educated and affluent. They receive more time and educational resources from those parents than the average child gets from theirs. Yet they get into more conflicts with their classmates at school, display relative little interest and enthusiasm about learning tasks, and register only middling academic performance. About whom are we talking? Adopted children. This is the paradox of adoption in America.

ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF Children Adopted from Foster Care: Child and Family Characteristics, Adoption Motivation, and Well-Being May 2011

From Adoptalk 2018, Issue 4; Adoptalk is a benefit of NACAC membership.  The number of children and teens in US foster care and the number of youth adopted from foster care rose in 2017, according to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).  Every fiscal year, AFCARS collects data on all the children in foster care and […]

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The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case-level information on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with title IV-E agency involvement.

Provides details on the reasons why children and youth entered care, the number of placement changes children and youth may experience, various reasons they exit care, and the rates of maltreatment in out-of-home care.

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Resource parents provide love and support, and many former foster youth go on to graduate college and rise above their traumas and struggles.

A disproportionate number of Black children are removed from their homes in L.A. County. Now, the county has backed a "blind removal" pilot for study.

Darker-skinned children wait longer to be adopted and it costs more to adopt a white baby.