FOSTER CARE STATISTICS
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30,000+
Children are in foster care in the state of Texas.
6, 105
Children were adopted from Child Welfare in 2023 in Texas.
As of 2021, California has the highest number of foster care placements with 47,871 children currently in care, followed by Texas and Florida with 28,042 and 23,507, respectively. But other states like Minnesota, Illinois, Arizona and Missouri have a higher ratio of foster care placements to the state population.
Why we need foster care in Texas?
- We need foster care due to the ever increasing number of abuse , neglected and miss place children needing homes
- There are over 20,000 Texas Children waiting for foster or adoptive homes
- In 2023 in the Dalles region there were over 18,000 investigations of reported child abuse 9000 of these were for neglect. last year half of the fatalities of children were linked to neglect.
- When foster homes are not found these children or having to stay at child protective services (CPS) office on cots and /or siblings are being split up and place in separate foster homes are in residential treatment centers RTC’s
Do These Stats Alarm You?
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12,639
Children were waiting to be adopted in 2023 in Texas.
Impact
On any give day there are 424,000 children in foster care in the United State. Over 672,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care. On average, children remain in state care for over a year and half, and five percent of children in foster care have languished there for five or more years.
