Statistics

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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What the Adoption Agencies & Professionals Don't Want You to Know About Adoption in the USA. The problem is that adoption is a business, a big business. There

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Giving a Voice to Adoption

The survey was entitled “Adult Adoptee Perceptions in Closed Adoption.” A link to the survey (through Survey Monkey) was shared on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog over a 2-week timefra…

Who and What is Adoption Surveys?  About Summary A special survey was created for adult adoptees that was open only for the month of November (2018) which is National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM…

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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In the 1970s babies born out of wedlock were regularly forced into the adoption system.

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.

A convergence of trends makes this an especially challenging time for adoption in the United States.

Adopted children may be more likely than their non-adopted siblings to attempt suicide, according to a new U.S. study.

In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system is imploding, potentially putting children’s lives in danger.

Three Partners Offer a Solution on International Children’s Day